The effect of college‐in‐prison on identity

Authors Patrick Filipe Conway , Michael Brawner , Carlos Maldonado , and Anthony Baye write in “Unlocking Narratives: Narrative Identity Theory and the Transformative Potential of College‐In‐Prison,” published in the Journal of Higher Education , explore how college‐in‐prison programs “shape identity.” The article, they note, is co‐written by “three incarcerated students.” The authors use narrative identity theory to examine “how education supports agency, communion, and self‐understanding, revealing the transformative potential of prison classrooms for policy, pedagogy, and student‐serving practices.”