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Robert J Helfenbein, PhD
Assistant Professor of Teacher Education

Office: ES 3126
Phone: 317-278-1408
Fax: 317-274-6864
Email: rhelfenb@iupui.edu

Profile | Degrees  | Publications  | Awards | Associations  | Grant Funding  | Expertise  | Courses  | Links


Degrees

  • Ph.D. School of Education, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, 2004
  • M.A.- Social Science Education, Appalachian State University, Boone NC, 1997
  • B.A.- Secondary Education- History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993
  • Certificate University Program in Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, 2004

Publications

  • Helfenbein, R. (under review). Looking through lenses: Culture in classrooms, curriculum, and the crisis of September 11th . Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.
  • Helfenbein, R. (in press). Thinking through scale: Critical Geography and curriculum spaces. In E. Malewski (Ed.) Curriculum studies handbook—the next moment: Exploring post-reconceptualization. Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Helfenbein, R. (in press). The urbanization of everything: Thoughts on globalization and Education. In S. Tozer, B. Gallegos & A. Henry (Eds.). Handbook of Research in Social Foundations of Education. Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Helfenbein, R. & Taylor, L. H. (in press). Critical geographies in/of education: Introduction. Educational Studies.
  • Helfenbein, R. & Shudak, N.J. (2009). Reconstructing/Reimagining democratic education: From context to theory to practice. Educational Studies, 45(1).
  • Helfenbein, R. (2008). Unsettling beliefs: A cultural studies approach to teacher education. In J. Diem & R. Helfenbein (Eds.). Unsettling beliefs: Teaching theory to teachers (pp.1-14). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
  • Helfenbein, R. (2008). Conjuring curriculum, conjuring control: A reading of resistance in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Curriculum Inquiry 38(4).
  • Helfenbein, R. (2006). Economies of identity: Cultural studies and a curriculum of making place. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing 22(2), 87-100.

Associations

  • Chair, History Educators Network of Indiana (HENI), 2006-present
  • Indiana Council for History Education, 2006-present
  • Indiana Council for the Social Studies, 2006-present
  • College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council of the Social Studies, 2001-present
  • American Educational Studies Association, 2002- present

Grant Funding

  • (2008-2009 granted) co-PI, Agency: IU Center for P-16 Collaboration Project: A Partnership for Improving College Readiness and Global Competence at the International Academy in Arsenal Tech High School $40,000
  • (2008-2009) granted) PI, Agency: Peace Learning Center Project: Jamaican Peace Education Programme Curriculum Mapping Project $2,000.00
  • (2007-2008 granted) PI, Agency: Peace Learning Center Project: PLC Curriculum Mapping Project $10,000.00
  • (Summer 2007 granted) PI, Agency: Indiana University Proffitt Summer Faculty Fellowship Project: Critical Geographies of Schools: Space, Place, and Curriculum Inquiry $10,000.00
  • (2007-2008 granted) co-PI, Agency: The Lumina Foundation for Education Project: Twenty-First Century Scholars program Qualitative Evaluation $53,559.00

Expertise

  • Urban Education
  • Critical Geography
  • Cultural Studies
  • Curriculum Theory
  • Qualitative Research
  • Social Studies Education

Courses

  • Y611 Qualitative Research Methods
  • J670 History of Curriculum Thought
  • W505 Collaborative Inquiry: Race, Place, and Memory
  • J500 Curriculum in the Context of Instruction
  • H520 Education and Social Issues
  • M442 Teaching Secondary Social Studies
  • H340 Education and American Culture

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