Claudia Ruitenberg was born and raised in The Netherlands. She first came to Canada in 1987 to attend the Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific on Vancouver Island, and returned in 2000 for doctoral studies at Simon Fraser University. She divides her time between Vancouver and Salt Spring Island.
Claudia is member of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society, the Philosophy of Education Society (US), and the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.
She is also Faculty Associate of the UBC Centre for Women's and Gender Studies and a member of the Steering Committee of Critical Studies in Sexuality.

Ruitenberg, C. W. & Phillips, D. C. (2012). Education, culture and epistemological diversity: Mapping a disputed terrain. New York: Springer.

Ruitenberg, C. W. (Ed.) (2010). What do philosophers of education do (and how do they do it)? Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Ruitenberg, C. W. & Vokey, D. (2010). Equality and justice. In R. Bailey, R. Barrow, D. Carr, & C. McCarthy (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of philosophy of education. London: SAGE.
Ruitenberg, C. W. (2011). The empty chair: Education in an ethic of hospitality. In R. Kunzman (Ed.), Philosophy of Education 2011 (pp. 28-36). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.
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.
Ruitenberg, C. W. (2011). Learning to articulate: From ethical motivation to political demands. In G. Biesta (Ed.), Philosophy of Education 2010 (pp. 372-380). Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.
Ruitenberg, C. W. (2010). Conflict, affect, and the political: On disagreement as democratic capacity. In Factis Pax, 4(1), 40–55.
Ruitenberg, C. W. (2010). Queer politics in schools: A Rancièrean reading. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 42(5-6), 618–34.
Ruitenberg, C. W. (2011). Art, politics, and the pedagogical relation. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 30(2), 211-223.
International workshop "Difference, Dissensus, and Democracy: Revitalizing the Political in Education" (2009-10, supported by SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Workshops and CSSE Support for Short-Term Scholarly Events). This is the second workshop of the international research group "Studies in Conflict, Culture, and the Political in Education" (SCAPE).
Methodology in Philosophy of Education 2003-2008 (2009-10, supported by HSS Research Development Grant)
Interventions in public space: An analysis of Walking Home Projects
Cristina Delgado, Ph.D. (in progress, co-supervised)
Lian Beveridge, Ph.D. (in progress, co-supervised)
Shayna Plaut, Ph.D. (in progress, co-supervised)
Gang Li, Ph.D. (in progress, co-supervised)
Parvaneh Ghazinezhad, Ph.D. (in progress, co-supervised)
Lilach Marom, Ph.D. (in progress, co-supervised)
Alejandra Sanchez, Ph.D. (in progress, co-supervised)
Vanessa Liston, M.A. (in progress)
Ryan Murphy, M.A. (in progress)
Sam Bradd, M.A. (in progress)
Amy Clausen, M.A. (in progress)
Shelley Coburn, M.A. (in progress, co-supervised)
Kozue Matsumoto, M.A. (2010) Unsettling Japanese Canadianness in Vancouver: Negotiated and hybridized identity
Shantel Ivits, M.A. (2009) Disturbing the comfortable: An ethical inquiry into pedagogies of discomfort and crisis
Stephanie Bonic, M.A. (2008) Educational value is not private! Defending the concept of public education
Karine Ng, M.Ed. (2011)
David Butler, M.Ed. (2009)
Paulina Moreno, M.Ed. (2009)
Gordon Chung, M.Ed. (2008)
Jeffrey Chan, M.Ed. (in progress)
EDST 601A: First Year Doctoral Seminar in Critical Social Theory
EDST 602A: Doctoral Seminar (Ed.D.)
EDST 597: Educational Theories
EDST 595: Conceptual Inquiry in Educational Research
EDST 565B: Method or Madness: Reading and Writing Philosophy in Education
EADM 581: Leadership, Administration and the Aims of Education
EDST 454: Critical Thinking: Frameworks, Methods and Challenges
