Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández
Assistant Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.
Contributor Biography
Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.
He teaches courses in curriculum theory, cultural studies, and the arts in education. His articles have been published in education journals like the Harvard Educational Review, Curriculum Inquiry, The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. He is co-editor of the collections Cultural Studies and Education: Perspectives on Theory, Methodology, and Practice (2004, Harvard Education Press) and Curriculum Work as a Public Moral Enterprise (2004, Rowman and Littlefield). His book The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School (2009, Harvard University Press) is based on two years of ethnographic research at an elite boarding school in the United States.
His current research focuses on the experiences of young artists attending urban arts high schools in Canada and the United States. He has also conducted research on the experiences of Latino/a immigrants in Toronto schools.
He has a doctorate in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
