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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UC Copenhagen

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At Copenhagen University College, we educate the future educators, nurses, teachers, social workers, physiotherapists, midwives and many more. We place a special focus on lifelong learning and career paths. This means that we have a wide range of further education courses, as well as credit and transfer courses, which are typically taken later in life. In addition, we conduct practice-oriented and application-oriented research within the areas we educate in. In this way, we develop new knowledge that is used in our teaching, contribute to the development of our professions, and help solve some of society’s greatest challenges.

As a university college, one of our distinguishing features is that all teaching takes place at the intersection of theory and practice. At the same time, we constantly develop the content of our programs to reflect society’s major challenges. In other words, we are closely connected to our environment – and it to us. Every day, we collaborate with our fellow educators in municipalities, regions, foundations and companies to educate skilled professionals who succeed in and together with practice.

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