AN OVERALL PICTURE ABOUT ACADEMIC LITERATURE FOCUSED ON ONLINE LEARNING IN PRISON
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Digital competency – which is indicated by the European Framework of Reference as one of the key competencies for Lifelong Learning – has been increasingly important in the international policy agenda as well as in the studies and academic publications. Taking into account that Adult Education mediated by a virtual environment may be an opportunity for knowledge acquisition and digital inclusion, there are, however, some contexts in which access, usage and participation are particularly obstructed or even precluded. Prisons are one of those contexts. Aiming to map trends in academic literature about Adult Learning supported by digital resources in prisons, we resorted to Education Source and ERIC databases to perform a literature review – published between 2010 and 2019 – and using the keywords prison, education, technology. The analysis of the 20 identified articles made it possible to know when and where they have emerged, as well as their objectives and the focus of the studies. With worldwide representation – although mainly European – and with particular expression in the last 5 years, the studies are mainly focused on prison education resources, learning results, educational staff and cultural aspects and policies.Keywords: Lifelong Learning. Adult Education. Prison Education. Online Learning. RESUMOA competência digital, indicada pelo Quadro de Referência Europeu como uma das competências-chave para a Aprendizagem ao Longo da Vida, tem vindo a ganhar um crescente interesse quer nas agendas políticas internacionais, quer nos estudos e publicações académicas. Considerando-se que a Educação de Adultos, mediada por um ambiente virtual, pode constituir uma oportunidade de aquisição de conhecimentos e de inclusão digital, há, no entanto, contextos nos quais o acesso, o uso e a participação são particularmente dificultados ou mesmo impossibilitados. As prisões constituem um destes contextos. Com o objetivo de mapear tendências da literatura académica sobre aprendizagem de adultos em ambiente prisional, apoiada por recursos digitais, foi feita uma revisão de literatura publicada entre 2010 e 2019, recorrendo às bases de dados Education Source e ERIC e usando como palavras-chave prisão, educação, tecnologia. A análise dos 20 artigos identificados permitiu conhecer a sua dimensão espacial e cronologia, assim como os objetivos e os focos dos estudos. Com representação mundial mas, sobretudo, Europeia, e com maior expressão nos últimos 5 anos, os estudos focam sobretudo os recursos digitais utilizados, os resultados de aprendizagem, as pessoas envolvidas na formação, o staff dos estabelecimentos prisionais e aspectos culturais e políticas de atenção a esta problemática.Palavras-chave: Aprendizagem ao longo da vida. Educação de adultos. Educação em prisões. Aprendizagem online.
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Some education experiences and projects provide access to digital learning environments to develop digital skills, demonstrating that it is possible to create online learning in prison experiences.
“Aiming to revert these situations that enhance inmates' social exclusion, some education experiences and projects (Barros, Monteiro & Leite, 2021;Moreira, et al., 2017b) provide access to digital learning environments to develop digital skills, demonstrating that it is possible to create online learning in prison experiences.”
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- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Social Sciences › Education › Online and Blended Learning
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