- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- Conclusion
- Introduction
- 1 Thinking about the past
- 2 1823: the birth of prison education
- 3 Prison in the 1700s
- 4 The rise of imprisonment
- 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
- 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
- Introduction
- 1 Searching for the causes of crime
- 2 What was taught in the prison school
- 3 The role of religion
- 4 Drilling and memorisation
- 5 Prisoners as scholars
- 6 This session’s quiz
- 7 Summary of Session 3
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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