When: Thursday 25 June, 12:30–13:30
Where: Online via MS Teams
What if education was not only about understanding the world, but also about understanding yourself and your place within it? What if students became active drivers of their own learning, shaping both what and how they learn? And what if the silos of education were broken down so students from different backgrounds and disciplines could co-create the future together? Regeneration is more than a topic, it is a new paradigm, a different wayof relating to the world, to others, and to ourselves. It calls for introspection, critical reflection, creativity, connection, and the courage to change. During the Dialogue June 25, Mieke Lopes Cardozo and Hill Scholte explored how education can be transformed to support this shift.
The speakers
Dr. Mieke Lopes Cardozo is an Associate Professor in Regenerative Education and Development at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR, University of Amsterdam). She is the co-founder and director of the School of Regenerative Educators and leads the interdisciplinary RISERS project, which explores innovations in education for regenerative societies. Her work bridges research, writing, teaching and practice to explore how education can contribute to regeneration, peacebuilding, social justice, and inclusive development in diverse global contexts. Mieke actively collaborates with educators and researchers worldwide and is engaged in several communities of practice dedicated to advancing regeneration and regenerative education.
Changing things university wide is impossible… And yet it can be done!’"
Hill Scholte is a lecturer and head of the Transformation Design course at the Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences). With a background as interior architect, she is dedicated to drivingmeaningful change in behaviour, systems and structures. Emphasizing the role of individual responsibility in societal transitions, Hill empowers students to become changemakers. By helping them develop cross-disciplinary, collaborative and creative skills, she helps shape new minds able to think ‘out-of-the-box’ and design solutions for a more just society for both humans and non-humans alike.
Real change in a system starts within yourself, and requires a lot from you."
Recording
Explore the topic further
Below some inspiring resources and initiatives shared by the speakers to dive deeper into the topic:
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira: Hospicing Modernity - Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
Bell Hooks: Teaching to Transgress - Education as the Practice of Freedom https://faculty.bard.edu/hhaggard/teaching/sci127Sp20/notes/hooksTeachingToTransgress1.pdf
Ginie Servant-Miklos: Pedagogies of Collapse - A Hopeful Education for The End of The World as We Know It
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World - On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Simone de Beauvoir: Waarom ik denk - Essays over vrijheid, filosofie en feminisme (Dutch-language anthology published by the Dutch publisher Bijleveld in 2025)
Carol Sandford: No More Gold Stars No More Gold Stars | Carol Sanford
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