Robert J. Helfenbein

Dr. Rob Helfenbein is Professor of Curriculum Studies in the Tift College of Education and has published numerous pieces about contemporary education theory in journals such as Curriculum Inquiry; the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing; The Review of Education; Pedagogy & Cultural Studies; Educational Studies; The Urban Review; and co-edited the books Unsettling Beliefs: Teaching Theory to Teachers (2008); Ethics and International Curriculum Work: The Challenges of Culture and Context (2012); Deterritorializing/Reterritorializing: Critical Geographies of Education Reform (2017); and the single-author text Critical Geographies of Education: Space, Place, & Curriculum Theory (2021). From 2013 to 2019, he served as Editor of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing and organizer of the annual Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice in Dayton, Ohio. His current research interests include curriculum theorizing in urban contexts, cultural studies of education, postfoundational research, and the impact of globalization on the lived experience of schools.