The Saskatchewan adult attendance centre project (1979-84) : a case history
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1987-01-01
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Masters
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The purpose of this case history was to view the development of the Saskatchewan Adult Attendance Centre Project through the perspective of currently accepted, but selected, adult education philosophy, principles, and techniques. The Project was a mandatory adult education component of Probation Services, a program for adult offenders operated by Saskatchewan Corrections. The story of the evolution from 1979 to 1984 of the two Adult Attendance Centres of the Project, based in the cities of Regina and Saskatoon, was presented in the context of an historical overview of the education of adults in the Corrections systems of Britain, the United States, and Canada. The Attendance Centres were not set up as adult education institutions. They were intended to be cost effective alternatives to incarceration. The study maintained that sentencing that included attendance at the Centres was more cost effective for the provincial government than incarceration or traditional probation. It argued that the kind of education presented to adult probationers in the Centre programs often strayed from currently accepted adult education philosophy, principles, and techniques. None the less, significant potential existed in the Centres for the creation of more meaningful adult education opportunities for persons on probation.
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justice, John Howard Society, John Howard, incarceration, Federal correctional policy in Canada, English prisons, English prison education, Federal correctional policy, Elizabeth Fry, Elizabeth Fry Society, Canadian Department of the Solicitor General, Dilys Collier, Canadian justice system, Canadian justice system and Aboriginal peoples, Canadian corrections system and Aboriginal peoples, Corrections Saskatoon, corrections, Corrections Canada, correctional system, criminal justice system, Canada's penitentiary system, case history, British correctional system, Bridewell, Borstal, Bridewell schools, British adult education, British Prison Education, Australian prisons, Australian attendance centre, Australian adult education, adult continuing education, adult attendance centre, attendance centre, adult education principles, justice system, adult education in the corrections system, adult education, Saskatchewan correctional system, Saskatchewan Justice, Saskatchewan Department of Social Services, Saskatchewan Department of Justice, Otto Dreidger, Prairie Justice Research, penitentiaries in the United States, parole, prison education, probation, probationers, probation services, Robert A. Carlson, Michael Collins
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Master of Education (M.Ed.)
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Communications, Continuing and Vocational Education
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Communications, Continuing and Vocational Education