{"id":2,"date":"2009-02-03T15:02:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T23:02:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-03-30T12:08:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T20:08:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am a\u00a0Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia<\/a> in Vancouver, Canada.\u00a0Originally from the Carolinas, I taught pre-school, high school, and university in North Carolina, Georgia<\/a>, Ohio<\/a>, New<\/a> York<\/a>, and\u00a0Kentucky<\/a>\u00a0prior to joining the faculty at UBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As a social studies educator my interests focus on the influence of social and institutional contexts on teachers\u2019 work as well as the role of curriculum and teaching in building a democratic society. In recent years, I have examined the influence of neoliberalism and the global education reform movement on curriculum and teaching in an effort to develop both a radical critique capitalist schooling and means by which teachers, students, and other stakeholders might resist its conforming, anti-democratic, anti-collective, and oppressive potentialities, practices I describe as dangerous citizenship.<\/p>\n

I teach and write about the politics of curriculum, critical pedagogy, social studies education, and academic labor. I have written and edited more than 25 books<\/a> on social studies, critical pedagogy, and social justice education, including The Social Studies Curriculum: Purposes, Problems and Possibilities<\/i> (SUNY Press), Social Studies Education in Latin America<\/i>, with Sebasti\u00e1n Pl\u00e1 (Routledge), and Rethinking Social Studies: Critical Pedagogy and the Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship<\/i> (Information Age Press). Four of my books have won the Critics Choice Book Award from American Education Studies Association.<\/p>\n

My articles<\/a> have appeared in Theory & Research in Social Education<\/i>; Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; Journal for Critical Educational Policy Studies<\/i>; Educational Studies<\/i>; Journal of Teacher Education; Works & Days <\/i>and many others.<\/p>\n

In addition to my scholarly work, I have written extensively for newspapers and magazines<\/a> on education and social issues and contributed to\u00a0radio<\/a> and television outlets across Canada, United States, and Europe. My education activism includes playing a key role in the creation of The Rouge Forum<\/a>, a group of educators, parents, and students working a democratic society through dialogue and direct action.<\/p>\n

I am co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Critical Education Studies<\/a> and the lead editor of the Institute\u2019s flagship, open access journals\u00a0Critical Education<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor<\/i><\/a>. I am also co-editor of Cultural Logic<\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/i>, which has been on-line since 1997, and is an open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal publishing essays, interviews, poetry, and reviews by writers working within the Marxist tradition.<\/p>\n

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I completed my undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and my PhD at The Ohio State University.<\/p>\n\"YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a\u00a0Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.\u00a0Originally from the Carolinas, I taught pre-school, high school, and university in North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, New York, and\u00a0Kentucky\u00a0prior to joining the faculty at UBC. As a social studies educator my interests focus on the influence of social and institutional contexts on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6122,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/6122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}