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Denna studie har undersökt skolformen “second chance” school. Studien utgick från en specifik verksamhet i Norrland som kallas “Unga till arbete eller studier”, eller UTAS. Syftet med undersökningen var att ta reda på vad som krävs av en studie- och yrkesvägledare som väljer att jobba inom en sådan verksamhet. Studien undersökte även hur denna typ av verksamhet påverkar deltagarnas självförmåga, och vilka möjligheter och svårigheter som kan finnas i denna typ av verksamhet. Arbetet baseras på tidigare forskning om social cognitive career theory, tidigare forskningsrapporter gjorda om second chance school verksamheter och gruppvägledningsmetoden WATCH som står för ”What Alternatives? Thinking Coping Hoping”. En kvalitativ metod användes, och semi-strukturerade intervjuer gjordes med fyra anställda på verksamheten UTAS: två studie och yrkesvägledare, en specialpedagog och verksamhetens samordnare. Resultatet av studien beskriver vilka kunskaper som krävs av en studie- och yrkesvägledare som vill arbeta inom denna typ av verksamhet, bland annat en mer finkänslig förmåga att anpassa sig till sin klient. Resultaten visade även att second chance school verksamhet har en positiv inverkan på deltagarnas självförmåga, och ger deltagarna det stöd och den stabilitet de kan behöva. Slutligen visade även resultaten tydliga tecken på att orsaken till att denna typ av utbildning behövs, är samhälleliga problem som ligger utanför skolväsendet.

This dissertation examines the relationship between community colleges and prisons as similar institutions that absorb and manage displaced workers, economic refugees, and dispossessed adult populations. Based on interviews with adult learners in two community college settings, I discuss how these two seemingly distinctive institutions work together to subvert individual and collective desires for self-determination through policies and pedagogies that institutionalize discouragement and emotional management. Specifically, I am concerned with what it means for working-class adults to participate in higher education in the context of precarity and incarceration-literally and figuratively. Drawing from the growing field of scholarship that underscores the consolidation of practices and interdependency between academia and incarceration (Chatterjee, Davis, 2003, 2005, Meiners, 2007, Sojoyner 2016), the contexts I have chosen for this project are two institutions where students gather each week to participate in the project of higher education. Carrying past and present traumas related to schooling, many participants viewed community college as the one remaining institution deigned to help them remake their lives. This study asks how participants made sense of their lives, choices, and sacrifices to participate in higher education and how these factors structure their expectations of what college might provide them. Utilizing critical race theory, this dissertation offers a theoretical framework pedagogy of repair, which I define as the interpretive structures and stories used by non-traditional students to make sense of their past and potential futures amidst the normative neoliberal structures of precarious labor, vulnerability, social abandonment and debt.

Επιχειρείται καταγραφή των απόψεων διευθυντών Σχολείων Δεύτερης Ευκαιρίας (ΣΔΕ) σχετικά με το ρόλο τους στην αναπαραγωγή ή το μετασχηματισμό του διακηρυγμένου καινοτομικού χαρακτήρα των ΣΔΕ. Διερευνώνται οι σχέσεις τους με εκπαιδευτικούς, με συμβούλους του σχολείου, με τον φορέα υλοποίησης του προγράμματος, την τοπική κοινωνία, όπως και τα κίνητρά τους, οι υποστηρικτικοί παράγοντες στο έργο τους, τα θετικά και αρνητικά τους βιώματα, οι προτάσεις που έχουν να καταθέσουν. Χρησιμοποιείται η μέθοδος της εστιασμένης συνέντευξης. Το ερμηνευτικό πλαίσιο είναι η θεωρία της δομοποίησης του Giddens. Διαπιστώνεται κυρίως αναπαραγωγή του καινοτομικού χαρακτήρα των ΣΔΕ, με μερικές επιμέρους αποκλίσεις προς το τυπικό σχολείο της δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης. / This research focuses on the views of Second Chance Schools’ (SCS) headmasters, regarding their role in the reproduction or transformation of SCS’ declared innovative character. The axes of investigation revolve around relations with teachers, school’s counselors, the carrier of the program implementation, the local community, as well as the headmasters’ motives, supporting factors which contribute to their work, their positive and negative experiences and their suggested proposals. The research method of focused interview is employed. Giddens’ structuration theory forms the interpretative context . The conclusions indicate primarily a reproduction of SCS’ innovative character, with some minor deviations towards the system of secondary education’s typical school.

Στόχος της εργασίας που ακολουθεί είναι να διερευνήσει τα χαρακτηριστικά του δείγματος εκπαιδευομένων τριών Σχολείων Δεύτερης Ευκαιρίας (ΣΔΕ): της Πάτρας, του Πύργου και του Αγρινίου. Το θεωρητικό πλαίσιο της έρευνάς μας βασίζεται στη θεωρία του κεφαλαίου του Pierre Bourdieu. Η συλλογή των δεδομένων έγινε με τη χρήση ερωτηματολογίου και η επεξεργασία τους με ανάλυση περιεχομένου. Από τα στοιχεία που συλλέξαμε, μελετάμε και παραθέτουμε τα χαρακτηριστικά της ομάδας – στόχου, τις εκφάνσεις του κοινωνικού και πολιτισμικού της κεφαλαίου, καθώς και την επίδραση που έχουν οι διαμορφωμένες «έξεις» των εκπαιδευομένων πάνω στις προσδοκίες και τις απόψεις τους για τη φοίτηση τους στα ΣΔΕ. / The aim of the following report is to examine the characteristics of a sample of trainees in three Second Chance Schools (SCS): in Patras, Pyrgos and Agrinio. The theoretical context of our survey is based on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of capital. We gathered data through questionnaire and we processed them employing content analysis. Based on the gathered data, we study and array the characteristics of the target – group, the aspects of their social and cultural capital, as well as the effect of the trainees “habitus” on their expectations for and their opinions on their attendance of SCS.

Sammanfattning Syftet med denna uppsats är att, ur ett socialpsykologiskt perspektiv, skapa en djupareförståelse för hur unga vuxnas väg till studier på Fryshusets folkhögskola ser ut. Därtill ämnarstudien få en förståelse för de unga vuxnas upplevelser av sina studier på Fryshusetsfolkhögskola samt den betydelse dessa studier har för dem i deras liv och framtid.​ Utifråndetta syfte formulerades dessa frågeställningar: 1) Hur såg de unga vuxnas väg till Fryshusetsfolkhögskola ut? 2) Hur upplevde de sin studietid på Fryshusets folkhögskola? 3) Vilkenbetydelse tillskriver de sin tid på folkhögskolan efter sina avslutade studier? Studiens empirisamlades in med hjälp av kvalitativa intervjuer med fem tidigare deltagare på Fryshusetsfolkhögskola som idag studerar på högskola eller universitet. Uppsatsen har ettsocialpsykologiskt perspektiv med ett teoretisk ramverk som utgår från ett symboliskinteraktionistiskt perspektiv. Ramverket består av dessa teorier: Berger och Luckmanns teoriom att individen tillsammans med samhället skapas som en social konstruktion. Främstkommer deras begrepp primär och sekundär socialisation användas, men även begreppensignifikanta andra och resocialisation. I det teoretiska ramverket ingår även Cooleys teorierom spegeljaget och primärgruppen och Goffmans teori om identitetstypologi. Resultatenvisade att Fryshusets folkhögskola har haft en betydande roll för de unga vuxna. De ungavuxna hade gått igenom en förändringsprocess under deras tid på Fryshusets folkhögskola. Deunga vuxna upplevde att relationerna på skolan hade haft en stor betydelse för dem, främsthade lärarnas uppmuntran haft en stor påverkan för deras självförtroende. Slutligen visadeäven en positiv förändring hos de unga vuxnas självkänsla och identitet. Innan deras studierpå folkhögskolan hade samtliga av informanterna oavslutade gymnasiebetyg och enupplevelse av att sakna mål. Idag studerar de vuxna på högskola eller universitet och de ungavuxna har en positiv syn på framtiden och en känsla av tillhörighet i samhället.

People released from incarceration are not equipped to deal with the challenges of transitioning back into society. Previous research on reentry suggests that correctional institutions may fail to adequately prepare inmates to transition to community life at the time of release, and little research addresses the perspectives of incarcerated people who have experienced reentry. Using social justice theory and the institutional analysis and development framework as guides, the purpose of this ethnographic study of reentry programs in a western state was to (a) determine how well they meet the needs of ex-offenders receiving reentry services, (b) identify best practices if their needs are being met, and (c) document challenges experienced by participants and program staff. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 2 staff members, and 12 male and 3 female ex-offenders recruited through flyers at three different reentry programs. Interviews were transcribed, subjected to deductive coding, and a thematic analysis procedure. The key finding of this study was that participation in reentry programs supports the values and hope of second chances for ex-offenders, but formerly incarcerated people need access to resources and support in order to achieve social and financial independence. The results of this study validated the two theoretical frameworks used. To the results of the study indicate that program administrators should establish methods to monitor and track outcome success, and policy makers should consider increases in funding to expand reentry projects that have demonstrated successful reentry projects and thus promote improved public safety outcomes.

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Thesis advisor: Andrés Castro Samayoa / The involvement of colleges and universities in the provision of higher education opportunities in prison has reemerged after a long pause following the 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill, which effectively ended the majority of postsecondary prison education programs. The 2016 Second Chance Pell Program has been instrumental in the development and expansion of higher education opportunities in prison. Support for justice reform measures has led to the likely full restoration of Pell Grant availability in prisons, taking effect as early as 2023, with funding for the initiative included in the most recent congressional stimulus bill. Both Second Chance Pell and one of the most progressive state-level prison education policies, New York’s Right Priorities initiative, rely almost exclusively on positioning higher education in prison as a tool for meeting the market needs of the state: reduced recidivism equating to taxpayer savings. This dissertation extends prior research examining the pitfalls of justifications overly reliant on narratives of recidivism. Using a three-article approach, it explores justifications capable of articulating the full moral vigor necessary to sustain long-term commitments to such policies and programs, ones that prioritize humanized responses to incarceration. The first article amplifies justifications articulated by those who have been the beneficiaries of such educational opportunities, investigating formerly incarcerated student perspectives on the value, meaning, and purpose of such programs. The second article, by focusing on policy developments within the state of New York, examines how the rhetoric of recidivism emerges in media coverage of both federal and state level support for college-level prison education. And, finally, the third article considers the pedagogical implications of adjusting the lens through which programs are defended, exploring the use of andragogical teaching methods—those associated with the tenets of adult education—in the context of prison classrooms. Taken together, each study contributes to literatures examining justifications for higher education in prison, and develops deeper understandings of the need for the provision of such opportunities. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2022. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

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