Changing Lives: Working with Literature in an Alternative Sentencing Program

Changing Lives: Working with Literature in an Alternative Sentencing Program
ISBN-10
1317262581
ISBN-13
9781317262589
Series
Changing Lives
Category
Education
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2015-12-22
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Taylor Stoehr

Description

Changing Lives recounts the experiences of a dozen men on probation in Massachusetts who took classes for three months to read and talk about great works of literature. The men explored the writings of Malcolm X, Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, amongst others. In these writings the men discovered many issues relating to their own lives, such as substance abuse, family breakdown, poverty and racism. The lessons create a safe space for reflection and earnest conversation, in which the students no longer have to bluff or be cool, guarded, or evasive. And because the classroom puts them on equal footing with authority figures - teachers, probation officers and even judges - a new social awareness begins to emerge. Changing Lives shows how reawakening moral consciousness and a fresh commitment to society is essential if probationers are not to cycle endlessly through the limbo of street life and jail time.

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