The Role Of Open And Distance Higher Education In Detainees In Greek Detention Facilities

• Authors: Charitini Linardatou , Evangelia Manousou
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this article is to present the results of the qualitative research conducted in Detention Facilities in Greece in connection with the preparation of the thesis (Linardatou, 2012). This is a case study of two prisoners attending Open Universities. The study concerned the characteristics and peculiarities of Open and Distance Education to Greek prisoners in detention facilities and the role of the Hellenic Open University (HOU) in higher education. The use of research tools such as telephone interviews and interviews with the use of a written questionnaire revealed the following information: In detention centres in Greece in 2012 there are two detainees-students studying together. HOU provides educational opportunities to prisoners but in its educational policy there is no strategy for the prisoners’ distance education. The article concludes with suggestions for improving the HOU policy towards socially excluded people such as prisoners.

Keywords

EN

Prisoners; Correctional Prisoners; Correctional Education; Education; Lifelong Learning; Second Chance Schools; Higher Open and Distance Education; Hellenic Open University

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-14

Dates

published

2015-07-01

online

2015-09-23

Contributors

author

Charitini Linardatou

• Hellenic Open University, Parodos Aristotelous 18, 26 335, Patra, Greece

author

Evangelia Manousou

• Hellenic Open University, Parodos Aristotelous 18, 26 335, Patra, Greece

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eurodl-2015-0001