A Focus on Pedagogy 2026

Across Teaching, Theory, Technologies & Times

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Strand Call: Everyday Spaces: Pedagogies of the Common Third

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In an educational landscape shaped by digital transformation, global frameworks, and rapid change, everyday spaces and shared activities offer a grounding pedagogical counterpoint. For example, eating together, cooking, setting a table, or cultivating a garden are not only social or cultural practices—they might be pedagogical acts that foster relation, reflection, and belonging.

This strand explores everyday practices and material spaces as pedagogical sites—what social pedagogy describes as the common third: a shared activity or object that mediates relationships and learning between participants. Through these shared acts, teachers and learners engage side by side, shifting hierarchies and creating moments of mutual discovery.

From this perspective, the everyday becomes a laboratory of learning. How might collective daily routines like meals and sensory engagement shape participation and care in educational settings? How can attention to the material, relational, and affective dimensions of everyday life deepen our understanding of inclusion, wellbeing, and sustainability? And how can slow, embodied practices challenge the accelerating pace and abstraction of contemporary education?

Bridging social pedagogy, design, arts, health, and environmental education, this strand invites contributions that rethink learning through the shared, the ordinary, and the relational. Everyday Spaces, Shared Tables proposes pedagogy not as a transfer of knowledge, but as a practice of being and creating together.

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University of Copenhagen

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Driven by intellectual creativity and critical thinking since 1479, researchers and students at the University of Copenhagen have expanded horizons and contributed to moving the world forward. With its 5,000 researchers and 36,500 students, the University boasts an international research and study environment and is highly ranked on the leading ranking lists of the world’s best universities.

The University offers researchers and students the opportunity to develop their talent and launches ambitious interdisciplinary initiatives to support its strong academic communities. Through research-based teaching – and by involving them in research – students are equipped to address society’s challenges and needs.

The University of Copenhagen is working towards becoming one of the world’s greenest campus areas, leaving as little environmental and climate footprint as possible. The University facilitates cross-organisation collaboration, liaises with the business community and helps students find relevant programmes and projects in the field of sustainability.

The University also focuses on gender equality and sees diversity as a strength.

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