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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  • Building Collective Knowledge

    Liberated Learning Environments

    Discover ways to honor and build on the knowledge, routines, and shared language that already exists in your classroom.

  • Co-Generating Goals with Students

    Liberated Learning Environments

    Discover ways to co-generate goals with your students to help build investment, connection, and support.

  • Developing Positive Relationships Among Students

    Liberated Learning Environments

    Find strategies to develop connection and collaboration between students so everyone in the classroom can contribute to an inclusive environment.

  • Inclusive Curriculum & Showcasing Artists with Disabilities

    Liberated Learning Environments

    Make your curriculum more inclusive by showcasing a diverse representation of artists and art in your classroom.

  • 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?

    Liberated Learning Environments, Practical Tips & Accommodations

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