The role of adult education in the integration of inmates into society after a jail term: practical experiences from Swaziland

Biswalo, Peles

doi:10.1080/02601370.2011.538178

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“…Recent studies by Biswalo (2011) in Swaziland, Setoi (2012 and Tsepa (2014) in Lesotho, Mkosi (2013) and Quan-Baffour and Zawada (2012) in South Africa show that there is a range of formal, non-formal and informal adult educational programs undertaken by inmates. However, the extent to which non-formal education meets and addresses the adaptive and transformative needs of offenders varies from country to country.…”

Section: The Necessity and Relevance Of Non-formal Education In The Cmentioning

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“…Normally, prison populations are less welleducated than the general population in Lesotho and in other countries (Setoi, 2012, Biswalo, 2011Tsepa, 2014). According to Setoi (2012), the Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services in Lesotho offers education and training to the inmates as mechanisms to rehabilitate and reintegrate them into their communities.…”

Section: The Necessity and Relevance Of Non-formal Education In The Cmentioning

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“…According to Biswalo (2011) in the context of Swaziland, the department of Adult Education at the University of Swaziland in consultation with the prison service conducted needs assessment between 1997 and 2009. The needs assessment was done before developing the educational programs to ensure that the felt needs of the inmates were included and addressed by the educational programs offered, followed by monitoring exercises.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In most African countries, Lesotho included, offenders' low educational status contributes to their offending and reoffending (Wade, 2007;De Maeyer, 2001;Biswalo, 2011;Setoi, 2012;Mkosi, 2013). Even though rehabilitation programs are provided for offenders in Lesotho, there are challenges facing that section whereby prison sentences do not always match education and training schedules, there are shortages of materials and equipment, inadequate funding, and a lack of further education and training for the training officers (Setoi, 2012;Tsepa, 2014).…”

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“…Several studies have shown that offenders' educational rehabilitation programs facilitates for their behavior change, reintegration into societies and prepare offenders for employment opportunities after release (Biswalo, 2011;Setoi, 2012). According to the United Nations General Secretary, "education is the fundamental right and the basis for progress in every country."…”

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Rehabilitating Ex-Offenders Through Non-Formal Education in Lesotho

Ngozwana¹

2017

IAFOR J Educ

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This paper reports on the rehabilitation of ex-offenders through non-formal education. It examines how non-formal education has addressed the ex-offenders' adaptive and transformative needs. Using an interpretive paradigm and qualitative approach, individual interviews were conducted with five ex-offenders who were chosen through purposive and snowball sampling. Qualitative data analysis was used to generate the themes from the data. The findings revealed that ex-offenders were taught basic literacy and life skills through nonformal education. Moreover, non-formal education facilitated the ex-offenders' transformed attitudes, including recognizing their identity as a result of transformative non-formal education. Some ex-offenders in Lesotho demonstrated how by tailoring programs and utilizing their own personal knowledge, they were able to share skills in spite of the prison bureaucracy and have consequently established an organization that serves as a link between prison and society. However, there should be a holistic approach to learning, which can target the immediate application of skills once offenders are released from prison. Similarly, offenders need access to educational resources once they leave prison that can build on what they already know/have learned so that they can turn their lives around.

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Section: The Necessity and Relevance Of Non-formal Education In The Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Necessity and Relevance Of Non-formal Education In The Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Necessity and Relevance Of Non-formal Education In The Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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