Liberated Learning Environments

Teaching Artists need specific tools and teaching strategies as well as a foundation in intersectional anti-ableist approaches in order to work successfully in inclusion settings like ICT classrooms. Resources in this section focus on promising practices related to community building, co-generation, and anti-racist, inclusive practices built on shared power among students and facilitators in inclusion settings.

Liberated Learning Environments are environments free from restrictive and limiting barriers imposed by racist and ableist societal structures, and are collaborative and co-generative, intersectional settings guided by anti-racist, anti-abelist, stigma free, anti-colonial practices.  Liberated Learning Environments are not static, they change and evolve to meet the ongoing needs of students and facilitators as a community.

This term is inspired by Paolo Friere’s work, which can be learned more about in Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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  • Intersectionality of Disability and Other Identities & Implicit Bias

    Liberated Learning Environments

    Learn about intersectionality and its manifestations in education, then explore strategies and resources for creating liberated learning environments.

  • Relaxed Performances: Supporting Performers and Audience Members

    Practical Tips & Accommodations, Liberated Learning Environments

    Make your performance welcoming for performers and audience members with a range of needs with these ideas for an inclusive event.

  • Trauma-Informed Teaching and Healing-Centered Practices

    Liberated Learning Environments

    Learn more about trauma, how to recognize it in the classroom, and how to incorporate Trauma-Informed, Healing-Centered teaching techniques into your work.

  • What Is Audio Description?

    Practical Tips & Accommodations, Liberated Learning Environments

    A brief overview of the basic principles and types of audio description (often abbreviated and referred to as "AD") contributed by Krishna Washburn. Remember…