The concrete objective of the MiP-project was to provide adult prisoners with tailor-made education in order to improve inclusion and rehabilitation within a Polish prison context. The project aimed to give our specific target group - inmates in the mentally disabled ward in the Polish prison system - access to relevant and State-of-the-Art mathematics/numeracy education. Providing adult prisoners with education and educational material was our objective, since our target group hardly had access to such mathematics/numeracy provisions. Another objective was providing professional development materials to the teachers and volunteers at the Polish prison system. The developed and improved courses and educational materials are instrumental in regard to the inclusion of the target group in our mathematised society and their rehabilitation process. By implementing this project, we offered adult prisoners in Polish prisons mathematics education to further improve inclusion and rehabilitation.
The main reason to apply for this project was to create and implement mathematics-material, which can be used to teach maths to our target group of inmates within the Polish prison system. By developing and providing high-quality mathematics/numeracy education to inmates, they improve their self-efficacy in societal situations. Furthermore, it improves the chances of inmates on the future labour market. The Maths in Prison (MiP) project addressed the need for more inclusion and a better rehabilitation amongst inmates in Polish prisons. It has done so by giving the target group access to State-of-the-Art mathematics/numeracy education to which they had no access before. This way, we improved the availability of high-quality learning for the target group. Our Polish partner (Socially Excluded Education Association "Busola") indicated that this lack of availability was a real and urgent problem for rehabilitation through education. The priorities that motivated us, revolved around inclusion of socially excluded groups, the fight against marginalisation, and developing better-suited, practical, functional and future-oriented learning of high-quality education among adults who have fewer/limited chances of education.