• Activist Learning can challenge ideas that educators can deposit knowledge into the empty minds of students by engaging co-learners as the co-creators of knowledge. 

• Activist Learning can engage young people and educators as co-facilitators of learning, encouraging young people to become knowledge creators and adults to become allies. 

• Activist Learning can empower activist/learners to articulate themselves in a way that is relevant to their lives and their roles as agents of change.

• Activist Learning can move activist/learners from acts of charity and sympathy towards solidarity and allyship.

Activist Learning can allow activist/learners to...

• Prioritize ethics and a work towards social justice;

• Challenge the ways schools perpetuate power structures in our society;

• Support teachers in reflecting on their complicity in this perpetuation;

• Show students that knowledge is socially constructed - and is not the 'truth';

• Assist students in deconstructing knowledge to see how and why it is that way and whose purposes it serves, teaching them to "read the world differently" and "resist the abuse of power and privilege" that abounds (Henry Giroux, 1991, p. 49);

• "Create new forms of knowledge through ... breaking down disciplinary boundaries and creating new spaces where knowledge can be produced" (Henry Giroux, 1991, p. 50)

Adapted rom Con/testing Learning Models by Gaell Hildebrand (1999).