What We Do
Accessible, participatory education for all budding learner-activists.
Virtual extracurricular courses on the topics that most interest young activists
Liberation Education Collective offers virtual courses for engaged learners to dive deeper into the subjects that matter most to them.
We’re particularly invested in sharing the stories that are buried by curricular repression, such as Black and Indigenous stories, queer and trans histories, and resistance to political repression, imperialism, and all forms of settler colonialism.
Please Note: Our courses do not offer high school credit. In order to maintain our ability to offer education across state lines and fully separate from federal or state oversight, LEC will not be an accredited institution. However, we will still maintain the highest caliber of instruction and educational ethics.
Participatory Action Research (PAR) & Inquiry-based learning
We seek to cultivate youth agency and critical consciousness. School Curriculum is so often disconnected from student experience and interest. Engaging students in inquiry cycles supports their motivation to learn, because it is student-driven rather than top-down, teacher- or state-driven. Critical consciousness-building is more than just becoming aware. Instead of just learning, students better understand how to engage in a pattern of behavior and action that reflects their knowledge, beliefs, and values.
PAR is a methodological framework & pedagogical philosophy that supports young people in building their capacity to transform their communities.
Accessible education for all bodyminds
Created to center the needs of disabled and immunocompromised students allows us to ensure this education is built for all bodyminds—especially and even if those bodyminds can’t or struggle to access traditional routes of education, such as in-person public schools. Sliding scale, scholarships for poor and low-income students.
Our team is comprised of members of marginalized communities, directly involved in struggles for justice. We are part of several marginalized communities ourselves. Our collective is composed of members who exist within and across multiple marginalized communities. We believe that all educators and learners forever exist across a continuum of both learning and educating, and the best way to dismantle hierarchical power structures in educational settings is to cultivate fluidity of expertise. In doing so, we erode the rigid distinction between teacher and student by explicitly affirming that we are all both.
We the instructors are active and engaged both politically and within our community in the struggles for queer and trans liberation, COVID & disability justice, migrant justice, reproductive justice, food justice, environmental justice, and anti-imperialism/solidarity with Indigenous peoples both in the US and abroad.
