Pedagogy Of Hope Jose Middendorp (RCE Fryslân) Europe Regional Meeting 2023 12-14 September 2023

1. A HOPEFUL FUTURE – HOW?
By Jose Middendorp, NHL STENDEN & Heleentje Swart, SPARK RCE Fryslân
European RCE Meeting ● 12-14 September 2023

2. • Professorship ‘Pedagogy for democratic and sustainable societies’
• Established by NHL Stenden, University for Applied Sciences in 2022
• Led by professor Jose Middendorp
• Several stakeholder-groups working on different and common themes
• SPARK RCE Fryslân - The sum is greater than its parts: systemic, regional
innovation for broad prosperity
• Pedagogy is key!

3. Transition Management, Geels & Kemp, 2000
Pedagogy is central
thread on each level!

4. Children &
Youth
Circle
Circle of
deans
Circle of
people in
working
field
Circle of
master
students &
teachers
Circle of
pedagogues
Circle of
bachelor
students &
teachers
Chore group,
weekly base
RESEARCH GROUP
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Open community

5. II
Take moral responsibility
Thinking and acting from what ‘can
be’ requires moral responsibility.
Reflect upon which values and norms
are important in the light of the here
and now, elsewhere and later.
Let why-questions be more
important than what-questions. Be
active. Do what you say you are
going to do.
I
Think and act hopefully
Put hope and creativity as
activating principles at the
centre of thought and action.
Think and act from what ‘can
be', and create opportunities
to teach, learn and live
differently, starting from your
own educational practices.
III
Resist
Develop the courage to resist.
Why-questions give direction
to our actions and also require
courage to refuse to act,to
resist time pressure, to resist
far-flung standardisation and
an ever-increasing educational
technocracy.
This text is based on the inaugural speech of Dr. Jose Middendorp, with the title ‘A hopeful future. How then?’, which
was presented on 6 April 2023.

6. V
Find space
Collaborate in small
communities in and outside
your class and school, despite
limitations and constraints.
Reflect together upon your role
in the systems that regulate and
control. Investigate where you
are capable of bending or
interrupting these systems.
IV
Slow down
Take literally and figuratively
the time to stand still. Increase
your attention to other
perspectives.
Reflect on your own practices
from a distance, so as to see
more clearly.
VI
Think and act relationally
Hopeful thinking and acting is
concerned with the common good.
Let imaginative actions be under
pinned by solidarity; let them
benefit life – whether this is about
people or other creatures with
whom we share the earth, near or
far.
This text is based on the inaugural speech of Dr. Jose Middendorp, with the title ‘A hopeful future. How then?’, which was
presented on 6 April 2023.

7. VIII
Persist
Persist in thinking and acting.
Complex questions require
attention and active patience.
Persist in the courage that is
needed with goals that
cannot easily be attained.
VII
Think and act pluralistically
Strive towards pluralism and
deliberately seek difference;
Consider the human as well as
non-human world.
IX
Be doubtful
Dare to be led by strong principles,
and be prepared to question and
revise your principles, actions and
consequences. Embrace
provisionality, unpredictability and
plurality.
Be prepared to revise one or more of
the above mentioned principles if
needed.
This text is based on the inaugural speech of Dr. Jose Middendorp, with the title ‘A hopeful future. How then?’, which was
presented on 6 April 2023.

8. Upcoming EERA Conference in Cypres, in August 2024
Theme: Education in an age of uncertainty: memory and hope for
the future
The professorship intends to participate with a paper on pedagogy
for democratic and sustainable societies.
è Which RCE is possibly interested to participate?
Please reach out to info@sparkthemovement.nl
https://eera-ecer.de/conferences/ecer-2024-nicosia/theme-education-in-an-age-of-uncertainty-
memory-and-hope-for-the-future

9. Jose Middendorp, NHL STENDEN
jose.middendorp@nhlstenden.com
https://www.nhlstenden.com/onderzoek/opvoeden-en-opleiden-naar-duurzaam-en-
democratisch-samenleven
Heleentje Swart, SPARK RCE Fryslân
info@sparkthemovement.nl
www.sparkthemovement.nl