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Hi, and thank you for your interest in my work. I am a Professor in the Department of Educational Studies<\/a> in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. This campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, which has been a place of learning for thousands of years. For my contact information, see my departmental faculty page<\/a>. I was born and raised in the Netherlands, but have lived in Canada since 2000. I am a graduate of Pearson College UWC<\/a> and completed my PhD at Simon Fraser University (2005).<\/p>\r\n My main scholarly field is philosophy of education. On this site you will find information about my research and teaching, as well as tips for applicants to the EDST PhD program who would like me to serve as their supervisor.<\/p>\r\n I am Past President of the Philosophy of Education Society<\/a> (2024-2025) and of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society (2016-2019), and initiator of the regional Westcoast Philosophy of Education Society<\/a> (2026). Since 2008 I have been part of the international research group \u201cStudies of Conflict, Culture and the Political in Education\u201d (SCAPE<\/a>). I am a Faculty Associate of the UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice<\/a>, as well as an Associate Member of the Posthumanism Research Institute<\/a> at Brock University. Currently, I am serving as Chair of the EdD program in Educational Leadership and Policy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Passing of the PES President’s gavel from Claudia Ruitenberg to Kathleen Knight-Abowitz (March 2025)<\/p><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi, and thank you for your interest in my work. I am a Professor in the Department of Educational Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. This campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, which has been a place of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25112,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ruitenberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ruitenberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ruitenberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ruitenberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ruitenberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ruitenberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ruitenberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ruitenberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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