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Equity X Education:

A Course for Practitioners Committed to Justice in Education 

 

Who is this course for?

If you’re working in education, philanthropy, or community-based initiatives and are frustrated by the same top-down, exclusionary approaches that fail to center the voices of those most impacted, you’re not alone.

The demand for transformative, anti-oppressive, and community-led education programs is growing. Yet, many practitioners lack the practical tools and frameworks to build truly inclusive and justice-oriented learning spaces.

We designed Equity X Education for those ready to challenge the status quo. This course is for you if:
✔️ You have lived experience of educational exclusion or oppression and want to shape solutions.
✔️ You’re a practitioner who believes education should be liberatory, not extractive.
✔️ You want to design education programs that center equity, anti-racism, and decolonial practice—whether in classrooms, non-formal learning spaces, or community-led initiatives.

We recognize that expertise is not just academic—it’s lived. That’s why this course brings together faculty members who have worked on prison education, non-formal education in communities across the Global South and North, and grassroots-led education movements.

Our Global Faculty will be announced. What we can tell you is that you’ll be learning from educators, organizers, and practitioners who have spent years working at the intersections of education, justice, and liberation.

✔️ Experts who have designed and led prison education programs that challenge carceral logics in learning spaces..
✔️ Practitioners who have co-created non-formal education initiatives with communities in the Global South and North, centering Indigenous knowledge, radical pedagogy, and participatory learning.
✔️ Scholars and activists who have worked on anti-racist and decolonial education models, ensuring education serves as a tool for emancipation rather than exclusion.

This is more than a course, it’s a collective space for reimagining education as a site of justice, resistance, and transformation. Stay tuned for the full faculty announcement!

PROGRAMME SUMMARY

 

Creating truly inclusive and anti-oppressive educational programs isn’t just necessary, it’s urgent. Calls to disrupt traditional social impact approaches are growing louder, yet many education practitioners still struggle to find practical tools that center community-responsive, justice-driven program design.

This course was co-created with individuals who have first-hand experience as recipients of educational aid and practitioners with deep expertise in designing equity-centered education programs.

This programme is for you if:
✔️ You have lived experience of exclusion in education and want to shape solutions.
✔️ You work in education, philanthropy, or community-led initiatives and are frustrated with top-down, extractive models.
✔️ You’re ready to build education programs that center equity, anti-oppressive, and decolonial practice—whether in schools, non-formal learning spaces, or grassroots movements.

 

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WHAT WE WILL COVER

Each session is designed to challenge dominant narratives, embrace radical imagination, and equip you with practical tools to build transformative education programs that center justice, care, and solidarity.

 

Week 1- Reclaiming Education: A Radical Reframing

  • Dismantling Dominant Narratives: Who gets to design education? Who benefits? Who is excluded?).
  • From “Inclusion” to Liberation: Moving beyond deficit-based frameworks toward community power and self-determination.
  • Expanding Our Praxis: Exploring decolonial, abolitionist, and anti-racist pedagogies—not as theories, but as lived, breathing practices.
  • Co-Creation Over Needs Assessments: How do we move from extractive “needs assessments” to asset-based, community-led design?

Week 2- Power, Positionality, and Disrupting Gatekeeping

  • Power Mapping Education: Who holds power in educational spaces? Who decides what is ‘valid knowledge’?
  • Intersectionality in Action: Beyond buzzwords—how do race, class, gender, migration status, and disability shape access to learning?
  • Case Studies in Resistance: Lessons from prison education, Indigenous knowledge systems, and non-formal learning spaces in the Global South & North.
  • Disrupting Gatekeeping: How do we redistribute power, resources, and decision-making in education?

Week 3- Systems Thinking: Deconstructing & Rebuilding Educational Futures

  • The power of capital: Roots of inequity
  • Analyse how systemic inequities are embedded in educational structures and policies.
  • Identifying leverage points for transformative change
  • Case studies on successful systemic interventions in education

Week 4- Pedagogies of Liberation, Healing, and Radical Care

  • Education as Healing, Not Harm: Unpacking trauma-informed and healing-centered learning.
  • Liberatory Education in Practice: Culturally sustaining pedagogies, popular education, and Indigenous knowledge systems.
  • Beyond Discipline: Restorative and Transformative Justice in Learning Spaces.
  • From Allyship to Solidarity: Practicing radical care, mutual aid, and accountability in education

Week 5-Education, Economic Justice & Land-Based Learning

  • Who Pays for Education?: Exploring community-driven funding models, participatory grantmaking, and economic redistribution.
  • Education Beyond the Classroom: How does land, environment, and labor justice intersect with learning?
  • Sovereignty & Self-Determination in Education: Learning from grassroots, worker-led, and land-based education movements.
  • Disrupting the Charity Model: Resourcing education without dependency on oppressive funding structures.

Week 6-Collective Action: Designing for Structural Change

  • From Project to Movement: How do we go beyond one-off initiatives to build enduring systemic change?
  • Designing for Collective Power: Moving from individual action to coalition-building.
  • Liberatory Evaluation & Learning: How do we measure impact without replicating oppressive assessment models?
  • Commitment to Justice: Reflection, action-planning, and sustaining long-term equity-centered work.

 

Pricing

Design for Social Impact is a social enterprise. We believe in offering affordable pricing, payment parity ( which means pricing adjusted to location) as well as paying people with lived experience of educational injustice fairly for their facilitation and expertise.

 

 

ÂŁ500

  • This is for individuals who are self-funding.
  • Payment Parity Pricing available for organisations based in the Global Majority-please enquire.
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ÂŁ635

  • This is for individuals whose organisations are funding their place.
  • We consider a small non-profit (annual income below ÂŁ1 million).
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ÂŁ998

  • This is for individuals whose organisations are funding their place.
  • We also offer a reduced rate for teams from the same organisation.
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