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Free Minds, Free People Conference
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Houston We are pleased to announce that the next Free Minds, Free People conference will take place in Houston, TX in June. We have convened a great planning team composed of
participants from last year's conference and educators and activists from
Houston. Watch this space for news and information about the 2009 conference. In the meantime, please check out this archive of the 2007 conference in Chicago. |
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Free Minds, Free People brought together more than 400 youth, parents, researchers and community-based educators from across the country to begin building a movement to develop and promote Education for Liberation. Education for Liberation prepares the most underserved members of our society to understand and challenge the injustices their communities face.
This national, intergenerational conference featured dozens of workshops by and for educators and youth on topics including social justice schools, action research, arts and liberatory education, Freedom Schools, youth organizing, teaching critical consciousness and much more.
More than 60 individuals and organizations shared their knowledge and experience. The conference took place at a public school in a Latino community on Chicago’s southwest side.
It was the “most amazing conference I ever attended,” said a teacher from California. Read more comments from participants.
Want to become a part of this community? Interested in participating in the next Free Minds, Free People? Join the Education for Liberation Network Listserv.
This web archive features descriptions of all the workshops and panels as well as photographs, notes and handouts from workshops and comments from participants. Click on Conference Agenda to enter the archive.
What is Education for Liberation? Hear how conference participants answer the question.
Listen as a high school student and an educator from New York are interviewed about the conference on WBAI radio.
Free Minds, Free People was sponsored by The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, the Chicago Freedom School, the Education for Liberation Network and the University of Chicago’s Center for Urban School Improvement.
See a full list of the people and organizations who made this conference possible.