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“Building that World”: Movements of Vision in the Carceral Classroom
Radical Teacher
  • Rhiannon M. Cates, Portland State University
  • Benjamin J. Hall, Portland State University
  • James Broughton, Portland State University
  • Andrew Reeves, Portland State University
  • Faith Hocutt Ringwelski, Portland State University
  • Kathryn Zaro, Portland State University
  • Jenna Richards, Portland State University
  • Lani Roberts, Portland State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-15-2020
Subjects
  • Ex-convicts -- United States -- Social conditions,
  • Prisoners -- Deinstitutionalization -- United States,
  • Prisoners as authors,
  • Teaching teams
Abstract

An article in which two teaching assistants and six students of a university course taught inside a correctional facility, "Writing as Activism," collaboratively examine their experience as co-teachers and co-learners in a humanities-based prison classroom. Fostered and framed by their instructor’s critical and transformative pedagogical approaches in this course, the authors locate integrated learning and collaborative writing within carceral classrooms as sites for intentional and resistant futures to be enacted and embodied as a practice of post-carceral world-building. The students enter their individual narratives into this location of their experience of envisioning and enacting resistant futures together in this space as a student movement dedicated and equipped to bring a world beyond prison into being.

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Copyright (c) 2020 Rhiannon Marie Cates, Benjamin James Hall, James Broughton, Andrew Reeves, Faith Hocutt Ringwelski, Kathryn Zaro, Jenna Richards, Lani Roberts


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

DOI
10.5195/rt.2020.713
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34598
Citation Information
Cates, R.M., Hall, B.J., Broughton, J., Reeves, A., Hocutt Ringwelski, F., Zaro, K., Richards, J., Roberts, L. (2020). ‘Building that world’: Movements of vision in the carceral classroom [Special issue: New student movements]. Radical Teacher, 118.