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Gifts from the Dark
Learning from the Incarceration Experience
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2021
Summary
While in no way supporting the systemic injustices and disparities of mass incarceration, Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience argues that we have much to learn from those who have been and are in prison. Schwartz and Chaney profile the contributions of literary giants, social activists, entrepreneurs, and other talented individuals who, despite the disorienting dilemma of incarceration, are models of adult transformative learning that positively impact the world. The authors interweave narratives with both qualitative and quantitative research references to analyze the role of solitude, writing, non-verbal communication; race and gender; physical exercise; education; technology; family and parenting; and the need to “give back” that precipitate transformative learning. The prison cell becomes a counterspace of metamorphosis. In focusing upon how men and women have chosen the worst moments of their lives as a baseline not to define, but to refine themselves, Gifts from the Dark promises to forever alter the limited mindset of incarceration as a solely one-dimensional, deficit event.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9170-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9171-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
195
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Prison Writing: A Literary Tradition No access
Incarceration: The Disorienting Dilemma toward Transformation No access
Transformation: A Brave Act No access
Understanding the Role of Race and Gender No access
Sitting with Yourself: Cells of Silence and Solitude No access
The Organic Intellectual No access
Higher & Continuing Education: Attracting the Best Students No access
Exercising Body and Mind: Habits and Flow No access
Emotional Intelligence and the Prison Experience No access
The Black Family and the Incarceration Experience No access
The Prison Experience and Technology No access
Non-Verbal Communication No access
Giving Back No access
Criminal Justice Reform: Everyone’s Responsibility No access
