Education in Carceral Spaces

Harvard HGSE

Offered online only for residential HGSE students. What is mass incarceration and how does it relate to education? How do we conceptualize prison abolition? How can education as the practice of freedom (hooks, 1994) be realized inside policed classrooms? What is the purpose/power of formal education? Given that human connection is generally contraband in jails and prisons, and education is about connection, what is our praxis? These are some of the questions we will grapple with in our…