Training basic skills in prison
Experiences from Norway
Valborg Byholt and Tanja Aas, Vox
EPEA, Antwerp 2015
Basic skills
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• ICT
• Oral communication
• Pedagocical resources
• Teacher training
• Financial support programmes
Groups at risk: Pilot projects for inmates
• Combining training basic skills with work
• Prison workshops as a learning arena
• Cooperation between the prison and education system
EPEA, Antwerp 2015
EPEA, Antwerp 2015
The prison project at Bastøy
• A teaching model for training basic skills linked to daily situations and work in prison
• Cooperation between teachers, prison staff and advisors from Vox • Good results
• Motivated participants, better learning strategies • Work related training meeting perceived needs• Closer cooperation school teachers and prison staff
More about the Bastøy project:
Learning basic skills while serving time
New projects with workshops as a learning arena
• Cooperation between teachers and prison staff• Training basic skills combined with work • Different types of prison work shops • Best practices from prisons with high and low security
EPEA, Antwerp 2015
Show positive attitudes towards learning
EPEA, Antwerp 2015
Structure and documentation of learning
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Be aware of learning possibilites
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Kitchen
• Numeracy • Change recipies to make it fit a larger or smaller group• Calculate the costs of a meal• Calculate the timing of making a meal
• Oral communication• Working together and share tasks• Plan the tasks of the day• Keep in contact with suppliers• Resolve misunderstandings• Conflict handling
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Hall monitors
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• Kitchen service and cleaning
• All basic skills incorporated• Motivation to qualify for jobs• Received certificates of competence
Cleaning
• Basic skills for inmates with no knowledge of Norwegian or English
• Literacy and oral communication combined with English
EPEA, Antwerp 2015
Carpentry
• Help inmates with further schooling in high security level
• Incorporated basic skills while building their own classsroom• Numeracy• Literacy• Oral communication
• None were motivated to go to school,
they all got their certification of apprenticeship
EPEA, Antwerp 2015
Car Care
• Get skills to qualify for a job
• Oral communication– Communicate with customers– Working together with others and share tasks
• ICT –skills– Use the calendar function of outlook– Save files– Basic computer skills
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Evaluation of the projects
• Completed in 2015 and looked at:
• How basic skills are incoorporated in prisons
• The effect(s) it had on inmates
• The effect(s) it had on the teachers and prison staff
• Variations between high and low security prison
• Cooperation between prison staff and teachers
Positive results!
EPEA, Antwerp 2015
Valborg Byholt, [email protected]
Tanja Aas: [email protected]
www.vox.no/english
EPEA, Antwerp 2015
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