Determining Common Practices as a Response to the Detainees’ Training Discontinuity

Project number: 2019-1-FR01-KA204-063069

Implementation period: 2019 – 2021

Access to lifelong learning as a principle of equal opportunity, in accordance with the 1st key principle of the European Pillar of Social Rights, as recalled by the Council of the European Union in its recommendations of 22 May 2018, is the basis of our ambition to enable all detained persons to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to reintegrate a position in their own society once released. Providing a common thread to all educational actions, social integration is therefore seen as the very reason of the presence of our French teaching structures intervening in a prison environment. Despite an educational context which is heavily impacted by damaging discontinuities in life courses and due to multiple factors (among others, high turnover rate of people, large heterogeneity of
learners, numerous constraints inherent to the operations inside a prison) the same requirements and the same references as those used in a free environment remain all the more essential to provide the learners with a central role, aiming at offering equal opportunities and ensuring the relevance as well as the quality of the training offer. This is why teachers inside prisons, even more than in an open environment, are expected to contribute to a constant restructuring of the proposed training offers by ceaselessly updating their own training and their teaching practices.

The European partners included in the process of this ambitious project are:

– The Teaching Unit of the Auergne-Rhône-Alpes Region (France)

– The Department of Education of the Penitentiary Center of Gherla (Romania)

– The Nelson Mandela Adult Public Education Institution (EPAPU) of the A Lama Prison (Spain)

-CPIP – CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE (Romania)

Project tools:

– a catalog of good practice compiling sessions and educational sequences that can be immediately reused in the teaching process used in detention

– an educational kit for the attainment of training schemes in a prison indicating the various stages of individualized training of detainees by teachers and educational teams, thus issuing recommendations in order to best position the student as a protagonist in charge for his/her own curriculum.