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The Role of Higher Education in the Face of Crises

The Role of Higher Education in the Face of Crises

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din 21 jan
20.00 - 22.00
Wageningen - Gelderland
35 - 59 jaar
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Presentations, workshop & dialogue. We kunnen na afloop even een drankje doen.

This night, Studium Generale Wageningen,
starts 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?

About Rethinking Higher Education in Times of Systemic Global Challenges

Our times are characterised by daunting problems: alarming climate change, accelerated biodiversity loss, rising wealth inequality, food security threats, increasing resource scarcity, and other growing vulnerabilities and injustices. How should educational systems respond to such global crises? To what extent is our higher education developing the qualities and competences the world needs today?

In the face of urgent environmental and social problems, calls are made for a reform of our educational visions and practices. Alternative approaches question conventional modes of learning and researching, and challenge classical (western) ideas about what (higher) education should look like. What is the rationale behind these alternative views on the desired objectives and character of education? What could they offer that the regular system might not offer (enough)? And what kind of discussions does this evoke about the mandate and responsibility of the university, the nature of (good) science and education, and the role of students and staff?
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