Dr Adelle Sefton-Rowston to research prison education programs in the US
A CDU lecturer has been awarded a scholarship to travel to the US to research state-of-the-art prison education programs.
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A CHARLES Darwin University lecturer has been awarded a scholarship to travel to the US to research state-of-the-art prison education programs.
CDU College of Indigenous Futures co-associate dean and senior lecturer Adelle Sefton-Rowston was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, which will support 12 weeks of study in Alabama. The state has similar incarceration issues to the Northern Territory.
Dr Sefton-Rowston will work under Auburn University Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project director Kyes Stevens, teaching literature and creative writing across 15 correctional centres in the state.
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She said she hoped to return to the NT with more knowledge and experience to share with other prison educators and encouraged others to apply for the scholarship.
“In some ways, prison education can be seen as a luxury, not a right,” Dr Sefton-Rowston said.
“I want to change attitudes about that because when inmates are punished instead of being educated, they become more traumatised and more resistant to citizenship.
“The term we use for this is ‘voice poverty’ – when being marginalised and disenfranchised hinders a person’s voice and their participation in social and political life.”
Dr Sefton-Rowston hopes to travel to the United States in mid-January 2022.
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