TITULO: enhAncing digital SkillS In priSon educaTion. ASSIST

REFERENCIA: 2023-1-EL01-KA210-ADU-000158469

ENTIDAD FINANCIADORA: Agencia Nacional Grieba

CANTIDAD FINANCIADA (nodo UAL): 22.300 €

ABSTRACT/DESCRIPTION: 
Nowadays, the 1st Second Chance School of Domokos (Greece) faces a slew of physical and practical challenges, owing primarily to its function and placement within a male prison. Adult education is a complex and challenging form of education. Furthermore, when education is provided within prison premises, the effort should be increased, and this task differs in various ways. Teachers at an adult prison school should encourage and motivate their students in any feasible way. As a result, our school strives to be a digital school with concrete and well-defined standards.
All these challenges and the effort put forth in the learning process, should be supported by education and training for our incarcerated learners in topics and trends that are crucial to achieving their respective goals, strengthening their skills and abilities, and providing them with concrete useful material in subjects pertaining to the new digital era.
The ASSIST project directly addresses the need for incarcerated learners of the Second Chance School of Domokos to acquire practical skills and digital competences in order to strengthen their personal expertise in digital transformation and obtain concrete basic programming skills. More precisely this project will promote the following concrete objectives:
- Increase access to digital tools and technologies for incarcerated people.
- Strengthen prisoners' ability to understand basic computing and programming skills.
- Promote and sustain digital readiness inside a prison school with limited web access.
- Enhance prisoners' competences by acquiring basic programming skills and introduce them to a new (digital) pathway.
- Reduce barriers posed to prisoners regarding digital knowledge and skills.
- Strengthen instructors' knowledge of adult learning pedagogy subjects (mainly regarding computer skills).
- Build sustainable digital material (multimedia lessons) which could be used by other incarcerated people in other prison facilities (with the aid of an instructor).
- Increase successful acquisition of basic programming skills by a minority group (i.e. incarcerated people).
- Implement a digital toolkit with distinct lessons directly addressed to imprisoned people.
- Facilitate a digital culture inside prison facilities.
All these objectives directly utilize the need for a digital-oriented project which will be implemented inside Domoko's prison facility and will introduce basic computing and programming skills to incarcerated people with limited digital access and with almost no prior knowledge of basic computing skills.