Approaching a pedagogical model of prison education

Abstract

The Colegio de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos del Estado de Durango (CECyTED), offers high school studies based on two pedagogic schemes, the first one is a technique formation, by different schools CECyTED; the second one, a Median High Education of Distance, denominated Educacion Media Superior a Distancia (EMSaD) a general high school that capacitates as Educational workers. They oppress in 71 schools that covers the majority part the state of Durango. Since 1996, attends students of prison centers, based on the schemes EMSaD with a schoolar modality, has at this day near of 700 students in the data base, and hundreds of students graduated in all the prison centers in the State of Durango. In a national level, this is the unique subsystem that provides this service and modality in the prison centers in an international level in Latin America, is the unique model with regular courses in the prison centers. By the way, the pedagogical model is not designed for this context, but it works with a model of students of common scholar context, it says outside of the prison. This project is a part of a series of different works and successful experiences shared for some years in different Prison Centers in the State of Durango. This emphasizes in the creation of a Dirección de Educación Carcelaria, this constituted a line that make the opportunity to recognize the pedagogical precepts, administrative and infrastructure needs of the prison. The objetive is to show a padagogic model to educate in confinement contexts. The method used in this work is action-research, and the contribution is the potentiation and the aplication of the model in México´s jails and other countries.