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UNINA9910826083103321 |
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Karpowitz Daniel |
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College in prison : reading in an age of mass incarceration / / Daniel Karpowitz |
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New Brunswick, [New Jersey] ; ; London, [England] : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2017 |
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1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations |
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Prisoners - Education (Higher) - New York (State) - History |
Education, Higher - Social aspects - New York (State) - History |
Prison administration - New York (State) - History |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- 1. Getting In: Conflicting Voices and the Politics of College in Prison -- 2. Landscapes: BPI and Mass Incarceration -- 3. Going to Class: Reading Crime and Punishment -- 4. The First Graduation: Figures of Speech -- 5. Replication and Conclusions: College, Prison, and Inequality in America -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Readings -- Index -- About the Author |
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Over the years, American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum. The Bard Prison Initiative is different. College in Prison chronicles how, since 2001, Bard College has provided hundreds of incarcerated men and women across the country access to a high-quality liberal arts education. Earning degrees in subjects ranging from Mandarin to advanced mathematics, graduates have, upon release, gone on to rewarding careers and elite graduate and professional programs. Yet this is more than just a story of exceptional individuals triumphing against the odds. It is a study in how the liberal arts can alter the landscape of some of our most important public institutions giving |
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people from all walks of life a chance to enrich their minds and expand their opportunities. Drawing on fifteen years of experience as a director of and teacher within the Bard Prison Initiative, Daniel Karpowitz tells the story of BPI's development from a small pilot project to a nationwide network. At the same time, he recounts dramatic scenes from in and around college-in-prison classrooms pinpointing the contested meanings that emerge in moments of highly-charged reading, writing, and public speaking. Through examining the transformative encounter between two characteristically American institutions-the undergraduate college and the modern penitentiary-College in Prison makes a powerful case for why liberal arts education is still vital to the future of democracy in the United States. |
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UNINA9910338044803321 |
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Autore |
Pinheiro Rómulo |
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Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education : A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries / / edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Hanne Foss Hansen, Kirsi Pulkkinen |
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Cham, : Springer Nature, 2019 |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
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[1st ed. 2019.] |
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1 online resource (XX, 326 p. 26 illus., 1 illus. in color.) |
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EDU001000EDU034000POL028000POL058000 |
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Political planning |
Europe - Politics and government |
Executive power |
Political science |
Education and state |
School management and organization |
Public Policy |
European Politics |
Executive Politics |
Governance and Government |
Educational Policy and Politics |
Organization and Leadership |
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Chapter 1: Does it really matter? Assessing the performance effects of changes in leadership and management structures in Nordic higher education -- Chapter 2: Performance in higher education institutions and its variations in Nordic policy -- Chapter 3: Nordic higher education in flux: system evolution and reform trajectories -- Chapter 4: National performance-based research funding systems: constructing local perceptions of research -- Chapter 5: External research funding and authority relations -- Chapter 6: The changing roles of academic leaders: decision-making, power and performance -- Chapter 7: Strategy as dialogue and engagement -- Chapter 8: Evaluation practices and impact: overload? -- Chapter 9: Governing performance in the Nordic universities: where are we heading and what have we learnt? |
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This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and micro) dimensions, namely: reform or policy initiatives; drivers, aims, instruments and actors; structural changes within universities; strategic and performance management; the rise of accountability regimes; incentive and evaluative systems; and perceived changes/effects by the key actors involved, at various levels. The volume provides critical insights to the larger phenomenon of change and adaptation within the public sector. Its findings and implications are of relevance to social science researchers, policy makers, managers/administrators, and external stakeholders. Rómulo Pinheiro is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the Department of Political Science and Management at the University of Agder, Norway. Hanne Foss Hansen is Professor in Public Organisation and Administration at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lars Geschwind is Associate Professor in Engineering Education Policy and Management at the Department of Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Kirsi Pulkkinen is a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Lapland, Finland, and Advisor of co-creation at the Research Services of University of Helsinki, Finland. |
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