{"639666":{"#nid":"639666","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Learning Alongside Former Prisoners, College Students Find \u2018Challenge, Passion, Mutual Support\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKathryn Higinbotham, a fourth-year student in the School of Literature, Media and Communication, co-wrote the article \u0026quot;Learning Alongside Former Prisoners, College Students Find \u0026lsquo;Challenge, Passion, Mutual Support\u0026quot; in Maureen Downey\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;Get Schooled\u0026quot; blog in the \u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E on September 13, 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the past year, Higinbotham worked as a teacher for an English literature class for the recently incarcerated that was run by the nonprofit Common Good. The course also featured instruction by faculty members from four area colleges.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe found ourselves as part of a collaborative project in generosity, including the generosity of the students who became our peers and friends.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen you imagine a class for people who have been released from prison, you may envision five-paragraph essays and a watered-down overview of U.S. history. That couldn\u0026rsquo;t be farther from reality. The course offered a deep dive into primary sources and conversations that would set a high standard in any college classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEvery Tuesday evening, the atmosphere was exciting and communal. Knowledge emerged through social production, a conversation among peers as opposed to a sage-on-a-stage. This democratic process happens so dramatically that we mistook one student for a guest professor for weeks before realizing he had been recently incarcerated. It was not until the student mentioned that it would be a year until he\u0026rsquo;d be able to vote again that we realized he had been incarcerated.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/education\/get-schooled-blog\/learning-alongside-former-prisoners-college-students-find-challenge-passion-mutual-support\/6GE3SOPPJFBEBEPTKAEVADF3R4\/\u0022\u003ERead the full article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-09-28 20:40:06","changed_gmt":"2022-01-24 20:26:15","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"big tech","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/education\/get-schooled-blog\/learning-alongside-former-prisoners-college-students-find-challenge-passion-mutual-support\/6GE3SOPPJFBEBEPTKAEVADF3R4\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-09-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-09-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63132":{"id":"63132","type":"image","title":"Ivan Allen College","body":null,"created":"1449176649","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:09","changed":"1475894552","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:32","alt":"Ivan Allen College","file":{"fid":"191747","name":"0711050-P1-000.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/0711050-P1-000_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/0711050-P1-000_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2061213,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/0711050-P1-000_0.jpg?itok=VmcdNIND"}}},"media_ids":["63132"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}