Teacher Training for the Education of the Incarcerated in Slovakia and Abroad

Abstract

The paper focuses on the competencies of prison teachers and the issues involved in their training for teaching adults as well as teaching in a prison environment. It tries to answer the question of what a teacher involved in the formal education of incarcerated adults should be like, whether they should be trained before the process of education, and whether the system of further professional education gives them the opportunity to develop their competencies for teaching in prison. The current practice in the undergraduate training of teachers and their further professional education does not reflect the specifics of the formal education of the incarcerated. At the same time, models for training prison teachers have existed abroad for a long time, and research reveals that the teachers themselves feel the need for specific training to teach in this specific environment.