Jorgelina Correa Andrade
Teacher, Ministry of Education, Argentina
My name is Jorgelina Correa, I am an Argentine language teacher for the public system of education, who specialized in adult and prison education. I have been working in prisons’ schools for 9 years, where she teaches male adults in primary and secondary school level. For the last 8 years, I have dedicated myself to study and research about Correctional Treatment and Prison Education in Argentina. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Prison Education, a Diploma in Pedagogical Interventions in Schools in Prisons and another Diploma in Criminal Justice and Correctional law. Nowadays, I am a student in a Master’s degree program about Criminology and I am preparing my thesis for a Degree Specialization in Public Policies of Education.
In 2018, I travelled to Switzerland to do an exchange visit to schools in prisons in that country and later I was invited to participate in a symposium in Argentina to compare both systems of education, Swiss and Argentine, in order to introduce changes in the school content for adult students in prison. In 2019, I participated as a speaker in the European Prison Education Association Conference, and in that year also I participated as a speaker in a Conference about Prison Education in Norway, organized by FOKO. In these three opportunities, I carried out projects with my Argentine prison students, where they spoke about their experience of being in prison and in a school in prison and exchanged letters with other prison school students.
