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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  • Creating Anti-Ableist and Stigma-Free Classrooms

    Liberated Learning Environments

    Learn about the impact stigma can have on your students, and develop the awareness and tools you need to work against stigma.

  • Disability Rights & Education History

    Liberated Learning Environments

    Explore a brief history of the ongoing fight for disability rights and for free quality education in the United States.

  • Inclusive Language Guide

    Liberated Learning Environments

    Learn how you can be more inclusive and respectful in your language with common do's and don'ts as well as alternative phrases for teaching.

  • 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.

  • 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.