The Future of Education

Under a broad perspective of the meaning of inclusive education, a little explored but socially necessary field emerges: Education in prison contexts. From a previous research work, this paper emphasizes the challenges that this disciplinary field represents for the Colombian context. Beyond legislation, education in prison contexts raises ethical, moral, legal, pedagogical and didactic debates. It implies paradoxes in terms of the just and the legal, of the condemnable and forgivable, of reconciliation and punishment and the power of the subjects to overcome their own conditions as subjects. As a private population, those who pay a sentence have the right to receive training, some even within the framework of the signing of the recent peace agreement acquire other possibilities of reduction of penalties or other benefits, therefore, there is an educational and didactic demand for methodologies, approaches and models that ensure a social contribution and a concrete transformation. Current regulations define some regulatory issues but fall short of the mechanisms to guarantee educational processes in such complex contexts. It is then a matter of opening a polemic, of generating spaces for discussion and debate and research that seek, together with education specialists, to address this complexity in order to contribute to the improvement of the situation of thousands of people who are able and entitled to have a quality education system. It is also expected that this paper will allow other researchers worldwide to form networks and problematize the phenomenon of privatized prison systems and the educational or community and social reinsertion function.

Keywords: Penitentiary education, education and re-socialization, prison education and didactics;