Words Gallery: An Introduction to Literacy Acceleration and Character Improvement in Prison

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211101.021How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Andragogy; functional literacy; visual learning; prison education

Abstract

This study aims to give an overview of the implementation of words gallery conceptual model as ‘a shortcut’ to literacy for illiterate incarcerated adults at PKBM Pengayoman in Gorontalo City Penitentiary. R&D is used to construct the model. Testing model is done to 5 (five) students in preliminary test and 10 (ten) students in field test. The result, based on the test given pretest and posttest, shows increasing score about 19.5 for students’ reading skill and 24 students’ reading competence. As for writing skill, the test score increases 19.75. The students’ response shows a great learning motivation, communication, curiosity, and independence. We limit this research with surveys and tests to students in the field. The results above are the original contribution of this study.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

Open Access

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Misran Rahman
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/13
TI  - Words Gallery: An Introduction to Literacy Acceleration and Character Improvement in Prison
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Continuing Education and Technology (ICCOET 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 105
EP  - 111
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211101.021
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211101.021
ID  - Rahman2021
ER  -