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A bricolage of narratives about teaching college in prison: interpreting through a performance text

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dc.contributor.authorSpaulding, Susanna Belle, author
dc.contributor.authorHarbour, Clifford P., advisor
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-13T20:27:58Z
dc.date.available2024-03-13T20:27:58Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this narrative inquiry was to explore and understand how a selected group of educators made meaning of their experiences teaching college courses in prison. This phenomenon was framed by the tension between two contrasting conceptualizations of education: education as a means of social control and education as the practice of freedom. The data were in-depth stories collected from a small number of participants through unstructured interviews. As I identified narrative structures from my interview transcripts for analysis, three transcendent themes emerged that I used to create a coherent composite story, or bricolage, about these lived experiences. Using a feminist lens, I examined how these educators worked in a borderland, negotiated power relations within this environment, and made personal transformations. To convey an impression of these real-life experiences, I presented the data in a performance text leaving intact large segments of my participants' interview dialogue. The prison offered a rich discursive environment for this study since its hierarchical power structure that focuses on social control contrasts with the democratic classroom that the participants attempted to create. Within the stormy, dangerous, and frustrating prison setting, these educators encountered unique situations for which they were often unprepared and were caught between competing conceptualizations of education.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierETDF_Spaulding_2008_3321315.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/237965
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectcorrections
dc.subjectdiscursive environment
dc.subjectfeminist interpretation
dc.subjectnarrative inquiry
dc.subjectperformance text
dc.subjectprison
dc.subjectprison higher education
dc.subjectcriminology
dc.subjecthigher education
dc.subjectteaching
dc.subjectcolleges and universities
dc.subjectprisons
dc.titleA bricolage of narratives about teaching college in prison: interpreting through a performance text
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thesis.degree.disciplineEducation
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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