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Words No Bars Can Hold

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Words No Bars Can Hold

By Deborah Appleman

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About the book

Words No Bars Can Hold provides a rare glimpse into literacy learning under the most dehumanising conditions. Deborah Appleman chronicles her work teaching college-level classes at a high-security prison for men, most of whom are serving life sentences. Through narrative, poetry, memoir and fiction, the students in Appleman's classes attempt to write themselves back into a society that has erased their lived histories. The students' work, through which they probe and develop their identities as ...Show more

Philosophy and theory of education

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ISBN

9780393713671

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Words No Bars Can Hold

Format

Hardcover

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