Description
Tonight, we start with a provocative question: Is the way our higher education is organised suitable for learning to deal with contemporary challenges? If anything is missing, then what, and why?Professor Arjen Wals argues that the current state of the world asks for nothing less than a radical re-orientation of education, and that we are in need of more social learning, transformative learning, and maybe above all transgressive learning. Being disruptive or transgressive is an essential part of sustainability-oriented learning in his view, as hegemonic structures, powers and routines need challenging. Find out why he is in favour of a so-called Whole University Approach, and what this entails.
Next, lecturer Koen Arts gives you the opportunity to get a taste of non-conventional experiential and place-based education in a workshop titled ‘Dark Pathways to Connectedness’. Weather permitting we go outside, so dress warmly! In a fun way, experience what the value can be of outdoor education. How could it stimulate relational learning, and what has this to do with sustainability? And is such an approach ‘sufficiently scientific’? Or is the assumption of the scientific researcher as an objective observer precisely what hinders us in addressing the problems at hand?
| Period | 21 Jan 2025 |
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| Event title | The Role of Higher Education in the Face of Crises, Studium Generale Wageningen |
| Event type | Conference/symposium |
| Location | Wageningen, NetherlandsShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | Local |