'The video is an upgrade from them all': how incarcerated fathers view the affordances of video in a family literacy programme

• Published in: Journal of educational media : the journal of the Educational Television Association Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 174 - 189
• Main Authors: Stickel, Tabitha, Prins, Esther, Kaiper-Marquez, Anna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basingstoke Routledge 03.04.2021; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Affordances; Audio Equipment; Bonding strength; Caring; Children; Correctional Institutions; Families & family life; Family Literacy; Family Programs; Fathers; Grandparents; Imprisonment; incarcerated parents; Information Technology; Institutionalized Persons; Literacy; Literacy Education; multimodality; Parent Attitudes; Parent Child Relationship; Parents; Prisons; Program Descriptions; Rural Areas; video; Video Technology; Pennsylvania

In response to rising parental incarceration rates, some correctional facilities now offer family literacy and read-aloud programmes to strengthen parent-child bonds. However, the technologies used in these programmes - including older technologies such as audio and video recordings - have received...