Guided Reading Programme for Prisoners: an Outcome-Oriented Approach

Autor: Zeljka Bagaric, Ljiljana Mikšaj-Todorović, Ksenija Butorac
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation, Vol 16, Iss 1-2, Pp 85-104 (2015)
ISSN: 1857-663X
DOI: 10.1515/jser-2015-0006
Popis: (ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)Zeljka BAGARIC1Ljiljana MIKSAJ-TODOROVIC2Ksenija BUTORAC31 Ministry of the Interior, General Police Directorate2 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Criminology3 Ministry of the Interior, Police CollegeRecived: 25.09.2014Accepted: 01.12.2014Original articleCorrespondending address:Ljiljana MIKSAJ-TODOROVICUniversity of Zagreb, Faculty of Education andRehabilitation Sciences, Department of Criminology,Borongajska cesta 83 f, 10000 Zagreb, CroatiaPhone (office): +385 1 245 7554Phone (privat): +385 92 1974 365E-mail: miksaj@gmail.comAbstractAs part of a more comprehensive pilot - study this paper deals with the verification of the first Guided Reading Programme conducted within the Croatian prison system, in the period from June 1st to September 1st, 2012. The subjects were adult male prisoners serving long-term sentences in a medium security prison. The results of the Verbal and Communication Skills, Transcendental Insight and Improving Reading Habits scales of two groups of prisoners were compared, at the initial and final measurement points of the programme. The first group participated in Programme activities (P group, N=8) in contrast with the second group which did not participate in the same activities of Programme (NP group, N=8), but agreed to complete the scales. All the prisoners participated voluntarily. The criteria for the selection of participants in both groups were: completion of four - year secondary school education, preserved cognitive functioning and intrinsic motivation.The data were analysed by the following non-parametric tests: Mann-Whitney test, Chi squared test and programs COCHCOX and METDIF1.Group P showed better results than group NP at the initial (p Keywords: programme, reading, inmates, prison system, verbal deficiencyIntroductionBackground and settingsThis paper is part of a wider pilot-study which has two purposes: (a) to establish a cooperation model between public libraries and the prison system in Croatia and (b) to introduce a Guided Reading Programme as a regular rehabilitation programme for inmates. The first rehabilitation guided reading programme was designed and conducted on a small sample of prisoners. Its verification will serve as the basis for the prospective development of new reading-based rehabilitation programmes, as well as an appropriate research evaluation methodology.The aim of this study was to compare the results of two groups of inmates on the Verbal and Communication Skills, Transcendental Insight and Improving Reading Habits scales (hereinafter: the VTR scales), at the beginning and at the end of the above mentioned programme in the Croatian prison system. The base for some of the variables of the VTR scales was the Verbal Reticence Test (1972), by Myron Lustig (1), whose variables were adapted to a certain extent to the goals of this research by the author of the Guided Reading Programme (2). The first group participated in the programme activities, in contrast to the second group, who, however, agreed to complete the scales. Better results were expected from the group participating in the Guided Reading Programme.Croatia: State of PlayExecution of prison sentences in Croatia is based on a rehabilitation approach (3) which presumes individualisation of sentences through individual imprisonment programmes and a number of general (work, leisure time and education) and specialised treatment programmes for selected groups of prisoners (e. …
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