Grundtvig – messages emerging
on prison education (III)
–Addressing individual learners’ needs is the key to success. This means individual strategies and tutoring
–Courses need to be very flexible
–Short-term courses need to be on offer to cater for the needs of inmates who have received short sentences
–New inmates should be able to enter courses on a flexible basis, even after they have started
–Far more flexible teaching is therefore required than in mainstream educational establishments, which has implications for teaching methods
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