Office Hours
Courses Taught
Research Interests
Publications

Office Hours:

By Appointment

Courses Taught:

EDST 565B, Method or Madness: Reading and Writing Philosophy in Education

EDST 597, Educational Theories

EDST 454, Critical Thinking: Frameworks, Methods, and Challenges

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Research Interests:

Philosophy of education
Poststructuralist theory and speech act theory
Identity and identity politics in education
Censorship, hate speech, and freedom of speech in education
Radical democratic theory
Gender issues and queer theory

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Publications

Refereed publications

Ruitenberg, C. W. (in press). Absurd conversations: On the educational value of interlocutionary misbehaviour. Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Ruitenberg, C.W. (2008). B is for burqa, C is for censorship: The miseducative effects of censoring Muslim girls and women's sartorial discourse'. Educational Studies.43(1), 17-28

Ruitenberg, C.W. (2008). Discourse, theatrical performance, agency: The analytic force of "performativity" in education. In B. Stengel (Ed.). Philosophy of Education 2007. (pp.260-268). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.

Ruitenberg, C.W. (2007). Here be dragons: Exploring cartography in educational theory and research. Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 4(1). 7-24.

Shaker, P. & Ruitenberg, C. W. (2007). Scientifically-based research: The art of politics and the distortion of science. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 30(2), 207-219.

Ruitenberg, C.W. (2007). "That's just your opinion!" "American Idol" and the confusion between pluralism and relativism. Paideusis, 16(1), 55-59.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2005). Deconstructing the experience of the local: Towards a radical pedagogy of place. In K. Howe (Ed.), Philosophy of Education 2005 (pp. 212-220). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2005). Check your language! Political correctness, censorship, and performativity in education (featured essay). In C. Higgins (Ed.), Philosophy of Education 2004 (pp. 37-45). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2004). How Ravitch restricts what readers learn about censorship. Essay review of The language police: How pressure groups restrict what students learn (D. Ravitch). Journal of Philosophy of Education, 38(4), 663-668.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2004). From designer identities to identity by design: Educating for identity de/construction. In K. Alston (Ed.), Philosophy of Education 2003 (pp. 121-128). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2003). Learning to live with art. In S. Fletcher (Ed.), Philosophy of Education 2002 (pp. 452-460). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.

Invited chapters, reviews, and responses

Ruitenberg, C. W. (in press). The hors d'oeuvre in a teacher education course (Response to M. Manson). In R. Glass (Ed.), Philosophy of Education 2008. Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2007). How to do things with headscarves: A discursive and meta-discursive analysis (Response to S. Todd). In D. Vokey (Ed.), Philosophy of Education 2006 (pp. 292-294). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2005). Essay review of Fit to teach: Same-sex desire, gender, and school work in the twentieth century (J. M. Blount). Education Review.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2004). Don't fence me in: The liberation of undomesticated critique. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 38(3), 341-350. (Special Issue: Conformism and Critique in Liberal Society)

Professional publications and research reports

Pushor, D., Ruitenberg, C. W., & co-researchers at Princess Alexandra Community School. (2005). Parent engagement and leadership. Saskatoon, SK: Dr. Stirling McDowell Foundation for Research into Teaching.

Ruitenberg, C. W. & Pushor, D. (2005). "It's not about colour-coordinating the napkins with the table cloth": Hospitality and invitation in parent engagement. Principals Online, 1(1), 32-35.

Pushor, D. & Ruitenberg, C. W. (2005). "Maybe it's time I changed?": Challenging assumptions: A starting place for engaging parents. Principals Online, 1(1), 42-46.

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