Abstract:
The study aims at designing and implementing a functional curriculum for Prison Education. Therefore, it focused on the concept and importance of Prison Education which centres on reforming the lives and outlook of prison inmates, rehabilitating them as they undergo penal servitude so that those who had no education or functional education will acquire skills which will help them to become employable and self-reliant, and re-orientating and reintegrating them, on discharge, into the society. The paper also discussed the place of functional curriculum in Prison Education, highlighting the major designing and implementation strategies of some of the learning opportunities in Prison Education, which include: Literacy Education, Functional Numeracy Education, Citizenship and Social Education, Health Education, Moral Education, Computer Education, Vocational Education and Leisure-time Activities. Some of the design strategies include the analysis of the societal situation; determining the goals and objectives from the outcome of the analysis; identifying and selecting of content and learning experiences. The implementation strategies also include recruitment of qualified Adult Education Facilitators, training of prison wardens who are used as part-time facilitators, adequate provision of learning and instructional materials, and provision of adequate physical environmental facilities.
