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Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez

phone: (416) 978-0194
email: rgaztambide@oise.utoronto.ca  
website: http://cmce.oise.utoronto.ca/Faculty/Ruben_Gaztambide-Fernandez/index.html

Departments:
Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Comparative, International and Development Education
Secondary Education


Academic History

Ed.D., Learning and Teaching, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2006
M.Ed., Arts in Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2000
B.M., Performance, The Boston Conservatory, Boston, MA, USA, 1993

Research Overview

My current research focuses on the experiences of young artists attending specialized arts high schools in cities across Canada and the United States. I am also the Principal Investigator of Proyecto Latin@, a participatory action research project with Latin@ youth in the Toronto District School Board. My theoretical work focuses on the relationship between creativity and solidarity. I am particularly interested in the creative possibilities that arise from the social and cultural dynamics of urban centers. The movements and encounters that define urban spaces generate particular cultural dynamics with the potential to reshape human relations.

Teaching Overview

Over the last five years, I have taught graduate courses in the Arts in Education, Foundational as well as Contemporary Curriculum Thought, and I also lead the Proseminar for Doctoral students in CTL. For Initial Teacher Education, I teach a course on arts integration titled Arts in Urban Schools.

Professional Activities

Currently, I am co-director of the Centre for Media and Culture in Education at OISE. I am also an editor for Curriculum Inquiry, and I am on the editorial boards of several journals, including Qualitative Sociology and the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. I am a former chair of the Curriculum & Pedagogy Group, and I have served on the Program Committee for Division B (Curriculum Studies) at AERA for two years. As a doctoral student, I was a member of the student run editorial board of the Harvard Educational Review.

Representative Publications

BOOKS AUTHORED

Gaztambide-Fernández, R. (2009). The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at American Boarding School. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

MOST RECENT REFEREED JOURNALS

Gaztambide-Fernández, R. (2010). Curriculum y el reto de la diferencia. Paulo Freire. Revista de Pedagogía Crítica, 9(8), 21-32

Gaztambide-Fernández, R. (2010). Wherefore the musicians? Philosophy of Music Education Review. 18(1), 65-84.

Gaztambide-Fernández, R. (2009). What is an elite boarding school? Review of Educational Research, 79(3), 1090-1128.

Research Grants and Contracts

The Urban Arts High Schools Project has been supported by two grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, a Research Development Grant (2008-2010, 39,000) and a Standard Research Grant (2010-2013, 109,000). It was initiated through a New Staff Matching Grant from the Connaught Program at the University of Toronto (2007-2010, 40,000).

My previous research on elite boarding schools was supported by a dissertation improvement grant from the National Science Foundation (2005-2006, 7,490).


Honours and Awards

In 2011, I received the "Early Career Scholar" Award from the Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies SIG of the American Educational Research Association. In 2007, I was nominated for a Teaching Excellence Award at OISE. In 2005, I received an Achievement in Instructional Technology Award, from the Presidential Instructional Technology Fellows Program at Harvard University, and in 2004, I received an Outstanding Faculty/Staff Member Recognition Award from African, Latino, Asian, and Native American Advisory Council (ALANA) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

My doctoral training was supported through the Research Training Grant of the Spencer Foundation.


Curriculum Vitae

http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/Curriculum_Vitae/Ruben_Gaztambide-Fernandez_CV.pdf


Arts & Media Cultural Studies Sociology of Education & Schooling Students (including Student Experience, Student Engagement & Students At Risk) Urban Schooling Anti-Racism Critical Pedagogy Equity, Diversity & Social Justice Gender & Queer Studies Research Methodologies and Practices (including Measurement, Evaluation, Assessment, & Knowledge Mobilization) Comparative, Development and International Education Humanities Studies in Education (including History & Philosophy)