ARAC was delighted to welcome Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández of the
Toronto Working Group
as our invited expert for
the ARAC-ARA Symposium on Artistic Education in Africa
in February 2020. Rubén is Professor of Curriculum & Pedagogy and Editor-in-Chief of the journal
Curriculum Inquiry
at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His research and scholarship are concerned with questions of symbolic boundaries and the dynamics of cultural production and processes of identification in educational contexts. His theoretical work focuses on the relationship between cultural production and solidarity. He is the author of
The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School
(2009) and co-editor of
The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education
(2019)
