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Designing Liberatory Classrooms: The Freedom to Learn, Teach, and Inspire

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During a keynote address at the 2022 Teaching Professor Conference, I spoke about challenges that exist in higher education, specifically students and instructors who do not have the freedom to bring their authentic selves to their learning or teaching environments. In such scenarios, students might not engage in educational experiences that help them realize their full potential, and instructors might not have the freedom to facilitate impactful instruction. I discussed how we can address these issues in part through inclusive teaching, which can be a pathway toward liberation in higher education. This piece further expounds upon these ideas.

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