Call for Papers /// EVERYDAY SPACES: PEDAGOGIES OF THE COMMON THIRD, 18-20 Nov, 2026, Online
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EVERYDAY SPACES: PEDAGOGIES OF THE COMMON THIRD – Global Teaching & Learning Conference Call 2026
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - University College Copenhagen
Highlight Notice: Sustainability
Conference: 18-20 Nov, 2026
Abstracts: 10 June, 2026
Place: Virtual
CALL:
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 sustainability, 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 which, in the context of a concern for climate change, lend themselves to the development of more sustainability disciplinary practices.
From this perspective, the everyday becomes a laboratory of learning. How might collective daily routines like meals and sensory engagement shape participation, resilience 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 call invites contributions that rethink learning through the shared, the ordinary, and the relational. Everyday Spaces, Pedagogies of the Common Third, proposes pedagogy not as a transfer of knowledge, but as a practice of being and creating together.
Part of the FOCUS ON PEDAGOGY SERIES 2026:
Across Teaching, Theory, Technologies & Times
To submit an abstract:
Publications:
UCL Press
Routledge Taylor & Francis
Other Partners:
University of San Francisco, USA; UC Copenhagen, Denmark; Bangkok University, Thailand; Chuo University, Japan; Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico; Glasgow School of Art, UK
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