Learning Through Discomfort: Relational Pedagogies for a Just University
26-27 June, Innovation Playground, The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS)
Hosted by: Centre of Expertise Global and Inclusive Learning – Research Groups Multilevel Regulation and Inclusive Education; Faculties of Public Management, Law and Safety and Social Work and Education
You are cordially invited to this two-day participatory conference that offers a critical and affective space to explore how relational peer mediation and the pedagogy of discomfort might unsettle dominant paradigms in higher education.
The event brings together educators, students, researchers, practitioners, institutional leaders and policymakers—within and beyond THUAS—to collaboratively engage in the affective, ethical, and pedagogical work of reimagining the university as a space of relational transformation.
This conference is organised under the Comenius Leadership project “Relational Peer Mediation Training to Foster Affective Learning at THUAS through the Pedagogy of Discomfort” and is for those who believe that higher education must engage the full range of human experience.
Join us as we co-create a restorative vision of the university—where discomfort is not an obstacle to learning, but its very condition of possibility.
The main language of the conference is English, but some sessions will be conducted in Dutch (see programme) If you would rather participate in plenary sessions in Dutch, please email us and we will explore the options to facilitate this.
Register by 20 June through this link
For a draft programme see this link
With any questions, reach out at peermediationthuas@hhs.nl