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Exploring the history of prisoner education
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Session 3: Inside the prison school
Introduction and guidance
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Acknowledgements

Session 1
Introduction
1 Thinking about the past
2 1823: the birth of prison education
3 Prison in the 1700s
4 The rise of imprisonment
- 4.1 Irish and Scottish prisons
5 Penal reform after 1800
6 Social unrest
7 Christian Evangelicalism
8 Utilitarianism
9 The expansion of education
10 How do people know about the past?
11 This session’s quiz
12 Summary of Session 1
References
Further reading
Acknowledgements

Session 1 practice quiz

Session 2
Introduction
1 Tracking the spread of prison education
2 Inclusion and exclusion
3 Ways of educating
4 The rise of the prison schoolmaster
5 Schoolrooms
6 Time for instruction
7 Reflection
8 This session’s quiz
9 Summary of Session 2
References
Further reading
Acknowledgements

Session 2 practice quiz
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Session 3
Introduction
1 Searching for the causes of crime
2 What was taught in the prison school
3 The role of religion
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4 Drilling and memorisation
5 Prisoners as scholars
6 This session’s quiz
7 Summary of Session 3
References
Further reading
Acknowledgements

Session 3 practice quiz

Session 4
Introduction
1 Books behind bars
2 Reading in seclusion
3 Expanding the prison library
4 Censorship
5 Borrowing books
6 This session’s quiz
7 Summary of Session 4
References
Further reading
Acknowledgements

Session 4 compulsory badge quiz

Session 5
Introduction
1 Prison registers
2 Evidence-based policymaking
3 Expanding the Criminal Returns
4 Interpreting and using the data
5 Illiteracy – a criminal problem?
6 Measuring the effectiveness of the prison school
7 Evidence of rehabilitation
8 This session’s quiz
9 Summary of Session 5
References
Further reading
Acknowledgements

Session 5 practice quiz
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Session 6
Introduction
1 Penal policy under challenge
2 The persistence of prison education
3 Reviewing the prison school curriculum
4 Incentives for learning
5 Facilities for self-instruction
6 Cellular instruction
7 This session’s quiz
8 Summary of Session 6
References
Further reading
Acknowledgements

Session 6 practice quiz

Session 7
Introduction
1 The Revised Code in convict prisons
2 The nationalisation of local prisons
3 The Fenwick Committee
4 Evaluating the Fenwick scheme
5 Uniformity across the UK
6 Warders as teachers
7 This session’s quiz
8 Summary of Session 7
References
Further reading
Acknowledgements

Session 7 practice quiz
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Session 8
Introduction
1 Behind the prison walls
2 Opposing voices
3 Pressure for reform: the 1895 Gladstone Committee
4 Reforming prison education
5 A new scheme for prison education?
6 The limits of reform
7 Learning from history
8 Reflection
9 This session’s quiz
10 Summary of Session 8
Where next?
Tell us what you think
References
Further reading
Acknowledgements

Session 8 compulsory badge quiz
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