Office:
Ponderosa Commons 3041
Website:
http://ubc.academia.edu/Ruitenberg
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudia_Ruitenberg
https://blogs.ubc.ca/ruitenberg/
About
Research, Education, and more
Research Interests
Research Supervision Interests
I can accept few new graduate students for supervision. If there is a good fit between a student’s research interests and my areas of interest and expertise, I may be interested in supervising thesis and dissertation research in the following areas:
- Philosophical approaches to educational questions, including (but not limited to) questions in the areas of ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, and translation
- Politics, democracy and citizenship in education
- Environmental ethics; educational responses to the climate crisis; permaculture
- Aesthetic theory and education; museum education; art interpretation and hermeneutics
Individual research Interests
Bio
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 lives on Salt Spring Island.
She was Academic Director of UBC Vantage College (2017-2019), President of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society (2016-2019), and Scholar in the Centre for Health Education Scholarship (2013-2017).
In March 2014 Dr. Winston Thompson, a fellow philosopher of education from the University of New Hampshire, interviewed Claudia for his PIPEline series. You can listen to the audio-interview here.
While she continues her teaching and scholarly writing in philosophy of education, Claudia’s interests are increasingly shifting to permaculture and other responses to the climate crisis and related ecological degradation. She will be studying permaculture during her study leave in 2022.