ABOLITIONIST EDUCATION COLLECTIVE
Radically transforming all learning spaces.
Abolitionist Education Collective (AEC) is a resource hub for educators to learn, collaborate, strategize, and deepen their abolitionist praxis. We work to cultivate lasting alternatives to punishment and control, radically transform all learning spaces, and abolish the school-prison nexus.
latest news
SESF Virtual Info Session on Jan. 19th!
Abolitionist Education Collective’s (AEC) Student & Educator Solidarity Fund provides $350 in material support to students and educators experiencing repression and harassment. Those facing repercussions for working to abolish the school-prison nexus and/or...
Announcing the Student & Educator Solidarity Fund
Abolitionist Education Collective’s (AEC) Student & Educator Solidarity Fund provides $350 in material support to students and educators experiencing repression and harassment. Those facing repercussions for working to abolish the school-prison nexus and/or...
Our Work
Learn, Strategize, Organize
Abolitionist Education Workshops
We offer popular education-structured learning spaces for those within and beyond AEC’s network to deepen their understanding of & commitment to abolitionist education.
Student & Educator Solidarity Fund
We provide material support to students and educators experiencing repression and harassment.
OUR VISION
Why Abolitionist Education?
Abolitionist education is a framework for and commitment to dismantling systems that replicate prisons, policing, and carceral logics that cause harm in the spaces we learn.
About AEC
Our Mission
Abolitionist Education Collective is a resource hub for educators to learn, collaborate, strategize, and deepen their abolitionist praxis. We work to cultivate lasting alternatives to punishment and control, radically transform all learning spaces, and abolish the school-prison nexus.
Our Theory of Change
We develop resources and facilitate learning spaces to identify, challenge, and transform practices that replicate prisons, policing, and carceral logics in the spaces we learn. We defend educators facing repression and retaliation. We invest in abolitionist education infrastructure. We support educators to organize within & beyond schools.
Our Values
Freedom
Self-Determination
Care & Healing
Collaborative Problem Solving
Community Safety
Radical Transformation of our Conditions
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