Publications – Claudia Ruitenberg

These are publications in the eight main areas of research most reflective of my current interests:

the climate crisis, planetary boundaries, and environmental education
political education
an ethic of hospitality
discourse and speech act theory
philosophical methodology
translation
art and museum education
health professions and other professional education

Climate crisis, planetary boundaries, and environmental education

Ruitenberg, C. W. & Wisniewski, T. (in press). Solidarity with youth climate activists: Intergenerational justice and chains of equivalence. In S. Wittig, J. Golle, & R. Mayer (Eds.), Ernesto Laclau: Pädagogische Lektüren. Springer.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (in press). Welcome to a planet in crisis: Intergenerational justice and educational hospitality as common decency. In T. Szkudlarek & W. Kalisha (Eds.), Educating the next generation: Reflections on crises, migration, and education. Springer.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2024). Convivialism, interdependence, and education: New conceptions of human and planetary flourishing. In S. Fraser-Burgess, J. Heybach, & D. Metro-Roland (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of ethics and education. Cambridge University Press.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2022). Beyond vocation or avocation: Regenerative food growing as a way of life. Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 29(2), 132-142.

Lussier, J. & Ruitenberg, C. W. (2022). Touch points: Educative experiences in multispecies contact zones. Philosophy of Education, 78(2), 37-51.

Ruitenberg, C. W. & Rathje, E. (2022). Perceiving the limits, or: What a pandemic has shown us about the climate crisis. Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 29(1), 72-77.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2020). The cruel optimism of transformative environmental education. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 54(4), 832–837.

Political education

DesRoches, S. J. & Ruitenberg, C. W. (2018). Chantal Mouffe. In P. Smeyers (Ed.), International Handbook of Philosophy of Education (pp. 283-294). Springer.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2017). May I have your divided attention: On the emancipatory potential of educational heterotopia and heterochrony. Philosophy of Education 70, 83-91.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2015). The practice of equality: A critical understanding of democratic citizenship education. Democracy & Education, 23(1), art. 2.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2011). Learning to articulate: From ethical motivation to political demands. Philosophy of Education, 66, 372-380.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2010). Queer politics in schools: A Rancièrean reading. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 42(5-6), 618-634.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2010). Conflict, affect and the political: On disagreement as democratic capacity. In Factis Pax, 4(1), 40-55.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2009). Educating political adversaries: Chantal Mouffe and radical democratic citizenship education. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 28(3), 269-281.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2008). What if democracy really matters? Journal of Educational Controversy, 3(1).

Ethic of hospitality

Ruitenberg, C., Meyer, K., & Nicol, C. (2020). Hoos: Scenes of hospitality. Public, 31(61): Currencies of Hospitality, 174-195.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2018). Receiving students and patients: Professional education and the double challenge of hospitality. Philosophy of Education, 72, 468-478.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2015). Unlocking the world: Education in an ethic of hospitality. Boulder, CO: Paradigm.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2014). Hospitable gestures in the university lecture: Analyzing Derrida’s pedagogy. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 48(1), 149-164.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2011). The empty chair: Education in an ethic of hospitality. Philosophy of Education, 67, 28-36.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2011). Hospitality and subjectification: On seeing children and youth as respondents. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 3(2), 133-140.

Ruitenberg, C.W. (2010). Giving place to unforeseeable learning: The inhospitality of outcomes-based education. Philosophy of Education, 65, 266-274.

Discourse and speech act theory

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2018). “Don’t feed the trolls”: Violence and discursive performativity. In H. Shapiro (Ed.), The handbook of violence in education: Forms, factors, and preventions (pp. 487-501). Wiley-Blackwell.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2017). Location, location, locution: Why it matters where we say what we say. Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 24(3), 211-222.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2015). Performativity and affect in education. Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 23(1), 38-52.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2008). Discourse, theatrical performance, agency: The analytic force of “performativity” in education. Philosophy of Education, 63, 260-268).

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2005). Check your language! Political correctness, censorship, and performativity in education. Philosophy of Education, 60, 37-45.

Philosophical methodology

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2020). Raising the question: The nature of philosophical questions in educational research. Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, 6, 823-838.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (Ed.) (2010). What do philosophers of education do (and how do they do it)? Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2009). Distance and defamiliarisation: Translation as philosophical method. Special issue “What do philosophers of education do (and how do they do it?),” Journal of Philosophy of Education, 43(3), 315-323.

Translation

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2017). The strange in the familiar: Education’s encounter with untranslatables. In N. Saito & P. Standish (Eds.), Stanley Cavell and philosophy as translation: “The truth is translated” (pp. 141-157). Rowman & Littlefield.

Ruitenberg, C. W., Knowlton, A., & Li, G. (2016). The productive difficulty of untranslatables in qualitative research. Language and Intercultural Communication, 16(4), 610-626.

Art and museum education

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2022). Education, instrumentality, and the lessons of useless art. Educational Theory, 72(3), 287-302.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2019). Art and the educational threshold: The aporia of access. In J. Baldacchino (Ed.), Philosophies and histories of art & design education (Vol. 1 of the International Encyclopedia of Art and Design Education). Wiley-Blackwell/ National Society of Art and Design.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2016). Against a ‘life hack’ approach to art education. Canadian Review of Art Education, 43(1), 199-207.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2015). Toward a curatorial turn in education. In T. Lewis & M. Laverty (Eds.), Art’s teachings, teaching’s art (pp. 229-242). Springer.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2011). Art, politics and the pedagogical relation. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 30(2), 211-223.

Health professions and other professional education

Schrewe, B. & Ruitenberg, C. W. (2021). Offering welcome in the kingdom of the sick: A physician guide to hospitality. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 27(3), 571-577.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2018). Receiving students and patients: Professional education and the double challenge of hospitality. Philosophy of Education, 72, 468-478.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2016). The overlapping spheres of medical professionalism and medical ethics: A conceptual inquiry.” Ethics and Education, 11(1), 79-90.

Ruitenberg, C. W. & Towle, A. (2015). ‘How to do things with words’ in health professions education. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 20(4), 857-872.

Ruitenberg, C.W. (2014). Physicians in philosophy of education: From cameo appearance to leading role. Philosophy of Education, 69, 146-154.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (2011). The trouble with dispositions: A critical examination of personal beliefs, professional commitments and actual conduct in teacher education. Ethics and Education, 6(1), 41-52.