My core question is: what do educational relationships, practices, and systems look like that are conducive to the mutual flourishing and potential of all life, and how can we co-create them?

I divide my time between three core activities:

(1) Co-creating and teaching in innovative educational programs. In this capacity, I'm currently affiliated to the bachelor Computational Social Science where I focus on teaching and developing the Change Making learning track. I've previously taught in innovative programs at the Urban Futures Studio and De Bildung Academie

(2) Resourcing educational professionals to regenerate themselves and transform the educational systems they are part of. I am a co-founder of School of Regenerative Educators, through which I co-host a developmental community for (aspiring) regenerative educators.

(3) Action research into regenerative education and educational system change. See my bibliography for published works and I'm happy to tell you more about ongoing projects and/or explore new collaborations.

• Wessels, K.R., van den Berg, B., Lopes Cardozo, M. (2025, forthcoming). The art of regenerative educatorship. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 

• Lopes Cardozo, M., Tankurt, I., Wessels, K.R., and colleagues (2025, forthcoming). Re-thinking Pedagogical Design in International Development Studies to meaningfully engage with global injustices. Progress in Development Studies, Special Issue on Just International Development. 

• Wessels, K.R. & Grünwald, L. (2023). Fulfilling the regenerative potential of higher education: A collaborative auto-ethnography. Education Sciences, 13, 1037. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13101037. 

• Streekstra, K., Wessels, K., Pelzer, P., Hoffman, J., & Chambers, J. (2023). The potential of ‘didactic mixing’ in lifelong learning. European Journal of University Lifelong Learning, 7(2), 53-64. https://doi.org/10.53807/0702Fmp7  

• Wessels, K.R. (2022). Pedagogy of entanglement: A response to the complex societal challenges that permeate our lives. Cham: Springer. (this book is an adapted version of my doctoral thesis) 

• Wessels, K., Bakker, C., Wals, A., & Lengkeek, G. (2022). Rethinking pedagogy in the face of complex societal challenges: Helpful perspectives for teaching the entangled student. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2022.2108125. 

• Community of Practice Regenerative Education (2022). Regeneratief onderwijs: Samen op onderzoek uit. Expertise Centre Mission Zero. Retrievable from Link. 

• Wessels, K. (2022). Een pedagogiek van verstrengeling. In C. Bakker & R. Coppoolse (Eds.), Op zoek naar de ziel van de professional: Levensbeschouwelijke vorming in beroepsopleiding en professionalisering (pp. 151-56). Onderzoeksgroep LeVo/NP – Hogeschool Utrecht. 

• Wessels, K.R. (2021). Brede Vorming op ROC Friese Poort: Een zoektocht naar pedagogische opgave, kansen en handvatten. Leeuwarden: ROC Friese Poort. 

• Wessels, K. (2020). The educational struggle with complexity: Towards school as a place for entangling. In N. Montesano Montessori, & G. Lengkeek (Eds.), Opening up spaces for meaningful engagement in educational praxis (pp. 111-128). Eburon Academic Publishers. 

• Wessels, K.R. (2017). Dan maken we ons onderwijs zelf wel: Een bildungsvisie. Leusden: ISVW Uitgevers.