Prison education on the margins of education for all – Prison education is an issue which would benefit from a more active role of initiative on the part of UNESCO. In Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, advocacy groups and networks are emerging; the same is true at university level, where research conducted on prison education is gaining greater visibility. This article is based on the author’s visits to prisons and meeting with officials, actors and prisoners in many prisons in more than 70 countries in the context of his work as a Senior Research Specialist for the UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning. At times contradictory, the objectives policy makers and prison educators set themselves include intelligently occupying inmates; informing and entertaining them; reducing recidivism; offering professional training; and calming them down. As a tool to both prevent recidivism and alleviate the effects of their disadvantaged background, prison education thus concentrates all the ambiguities of an education aiming to liberate in an environment that does not allow freedom. Inmates are destabilised by the confined space and daily schedule of the prison environment, which do not correspond in any way to the distances and rhythms of the outside world. Although they do have access to a few sports activities, to the prison library, to work, to training, all of these activities take place in an artificially constructed space-time. Education is a right and, as such, it should not be justified economically or in terms of security and order. This article examines some good and bad motivations for further education in prison. It concludes with suggestions for prison education for all throughout life, whatever that life may look like.

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全民教育边缘的监狱教育

处于全民教育边缘的监狱教育——监狱教育是一个问题，可从教科文组织方面发挥更积极的主动作用而受益。在欧洲、拉丁美洲、亚洲和非洲，倡导团体和网络正在兴起；在大学一级也是如此，在那里对监狱教育进行的研究越来越受到关注。本文基于作者作为联合国教科文组织终身学习研究所高级研究专家的工作背景，访问了监狱，并会见了 70 多个国家的许多监狱的官员、演员和囚犯。有时相互矛盾，客观的决策者和监狱教育者自己设定的包括聪明的囚犯；通知和娱乐他们；减少再犯；提供专业培训；并使他们平静下来。作为防止再犯和减轻其不利背景影响的工具，监狱教育因此集中了旨在在不允许自由的环境中解放的教育的所有歧义。监狱环境的密闭空间和日常安排使囚犯变得不稳定，这与外界的距离和节奏完全不符。虽然他们确实可以参加一些体育活动，去监狱图书馆，去工作，去训练，但所有这些活动都是在人工构建的时空中进行的。教育是一项权利，因此，不应在经济上或安全和秩序方面为其辩护。本文探讨了监狱继续教育的一些好的和坏的动机。