AUTHOR DETAIL
Robert J. Helfenbein
Indiana University
Rob Helfenbein is Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies at Indiana University-IUPUI and, until stepping down in January of 2012, Associate Director of the Center for Urban and Multicultural Education (CUME). He earned his Ph.D. and B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Helfenbein offers courses in Teaching Secondary Social Studies and graduate level courses in curriculum theory, qualitative research methods, social foundations, and urban education.
Dr. Helfenbein has published and edited numerous research articles and book chapters about contemporary education analysis in urban contexts in journal such as Curriculum Inquiry, the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Educational Studies, The Urban Review, the Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, and co-edited the volumes Unsettling Beliefs: Teaching Theory to Teachers (2008/Information Age) and Ethics and International Curriculum Work: The Challenges of Culture and Context (forthcoming/Spring 2012). Serving as section editor of the Cultural Studies and Curriculum component of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing since 2010 and chair of the Critical Issues of Curriculum and Cultural Studies SIG of AERA (2010-2012) has provided the opportunity to continue work on the intersection of these two fields of inquiry.
BOOKS EDITED BY OR AUTHORED BY THIS PERSON:
 | Ethics and International Curriculum WorkThe Challenges of Culture and ContextEdited by Terrence C. Mason, Indiana University – Bloomington and Robert J. Helfenbein, Indiana University |
 | Unsettling BeliefsTeaching Theory To TeachersEdited by Josh Diem, University of Miami and Robert J. Helfenbein, Indiana University |
