Schools as Disabling Institutions is a three-part workshop series that examines how the logics, practices, and structures of conventional schooling are disabling to students, educators, communities, and ultimately, larger social movements.
The workshop series will offer space for attendees to reflect on their schooling experiences, evaluate how schools rely on and reinforce ableism, deepen their commitments to abolition and disability justice, and dream up learning spaces that prioritize freedom, self-determination, care and healing, collaborative problem solving, community safety, and a radical transformation of our conditions.
Schooling & (Dis)connection – Wednesday, September 24th
- This workshop focuses on the ways schooling has and continues to (dis)connect students from their body, desires, curiosity, needs, and community & how that shapes relationships with themselves and with others.
Abolition & Disability Justice – Wednesday, October 8th
- This workshop focuses on the connections between abolition and disability justice, the disabling impact of schooling, and ways students and educators comply with and / or challenge disabling practices.
Designing Less Shitty Learning Spaces – Wednesday, October 22nd
- This workshop encourages attendees to design connection-centered learning spaces that meet their needs and and offers an abolitionist education framework as a way dismantle systems that replicate prisons, policing, and carceral logics that cause harm in the spaces we learn.
Each workshop will take place on Zoom and begin at 4pm PT / 5pm MT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET. Auto-generated captioning and visual descriptions of images will be available throughout the series. Unfortunately, due to budget constraints, no interpretation services will be available.
REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP SERIES HERE
This workshop series is hosted by Abolitionist Education Collective (AEC), 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.
