Campus Directory

Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Education Department

Title Professor of Philosophy of Education

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Critical Theory
Philosophy
Education
Ethics
Epistemology
Democracy
Community-based Research
Discrimination and Inequality
School Reform and School Policy

Web Site

Primary Office Location McHenry Library
3122

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours By Appointment

Mail Stop Education Department

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Stanford University; Philosophy of Education
M.A. Stanford University; Philosophy
C.Phil. University of California, Berkeley; Philosophy of Education
Ed.M. Harvard University
B.A. Harvard University; cum laude, History and Science

Professor Glass is a Professor of Philosophy of Education. He currently investigates the ethical issues raised by justice-oriented collaborative research methodologies, and has long focused his philosophic work on education as a practice of freedom, ideological (trans)formation, and the role of education and public learning processes in creating a just, pluralistic democracy. He has also investigated school reform and collaborated with professional development schools in low-income, racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse communities. Professor Glass’s philosophy of praxis is rooted in his Civil Rights and anti-Viet Nam war movement experiences and his many years of working with aggrieved communities struggling for justice. Prior to serving on university faculties, Professor Glass directed the San Francisco-based Adult Education Development Project, and collaborated with Paulo Freire and Myles Horton, the world-renowned educators for democracy.

Summary of Expertise

Education as a 'practice of freedom'

Philosophy of education (ontology; ethics; epistemology; politics)

Critical theories and education

Ideology and education

Race racism and education

Equity-oriented, collaborative community-based research

Community-driven justice reforms in low-income, racially, culturally and linguistically diverse schools and communities

Public learning processes and democratic policy making

Awards, Honors and Grants

Selected Awards:

Phoenix, AZ, Human Relations Commission Martin Luther King, Jr., Living the Dream Award

University of California Santa Cruz Social Sciences Division Golden Apple Teaching Award

Stanford University School of Education Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching

Arizona State University Dondrell Swanson "Advocates of Social Justice' Award

Selected Grants: PI: $1.54M, Multicampus Research Program Initiative, University of California Office of the President; $600K, Spencer Foundation; Co-PI: $350K, National Science Foundation

Selected Publications

• Glass, R.D. & Stoudt, B. 2019. Collaborative research for justice and multi-issue movement building. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 27(52) May 2019. Glass, R.D. & Warren, M.R. Guest Editors, Themed Issue, Collaborative Research for Justice and Multi-Issue Movement Building: Challenging Discriminatory Policing, School Closures, and Youth Unemployment.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.4470

• Warren, M.R. & Glass, R.D. 2019. Collaborative research and movement building for educational justice: Reflections on the Urban Research Based Action Network. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 27(53) May 2019.  Glass, R.D. & Warren, M.R. Guest Editors, Themed Issue, Collaborative Research for Justice and Multi-Issue Movement Building: Challenging Discriminatory Policing, School Closures, and Youth Unemployment.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.4445    

• Glass, R.D., Morton, J., King, J.E., Krueger-Henney, P., Moses, M.S., Sabati, S., Richardson, T. 2018. The Ethical Stakes of Collaborative Community-Based Research. Urban Education. 53 (4), 503-531.  https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/uexa/53/4

• Ronald David Glass. 2018. Interview. In Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (50th Anniversary Edition). New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic. 199-200. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/pedagogy-of-the-oppressed-9781501314162/

  Samara S. Foster and Ronald David Glass. (2017). Ethical, Epistemic, and Political Issues in Equity-Oriented Collaborative Community-Based Research. The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research. Rowell, L. L., Bruce, C. D., Shosh, J. M., & Riel. M. M. (Eds.). London: Palgrave MacMillan. 511-526. DOI  https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40523-4_31 

• Anne Newman & Ronald David Glass. 2014. Comparing Ethical and Epistemic Standards for Investigative Journalists and Equity-Oriented Collaborative Community-Based Researchers: Why Working for a University Matters. The Journal of Higher Education. 85(3), 283-311.

• Anne Newman & Ronald David Glass. 2014. Ethical and Epistemic Dilemmas in Empirically Engaged Philosophy of Education. Studies in Philosophy and Education. Published on-line by Springer Press 24 April 2014.

• Pia Lindquist Wong & Ronald David Glass. (2011). Professional development schools and student learning and achievement. In J. Neapolitan (Ed.), Taking Stock of Professional Development Schools: What’s Needed Now. New York, NY: Teachers College Press and the National Society for the Study of Education. Volume 110: No. 2., 403-431.

• Ronald David Glass & Kysa Nygreen. (2011). Class, race, and the discourse of ‘college for all’. Democracy and Education. 19:1.

• Ronald David Glass. (2011). Critical pedagogy and moral education. In J. Devitis & T. Yu (Eds.), Character and Moral Education: A Reader. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishers. 227-239.

• Pia Lindquist Wong & Ronald David Glass (Eds.). (2009). PRIORITIZING URBAN CHILDREN, TEACHERS, AND SCHOOLS THROUGH PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLS. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

• Ronald David Glass (Ed.) (2009). PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 2008. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Philosophy of Education Society.

• Ronald David Glass. (2009). Education and the ethics of democratic citizenship. In Education, Democracy, and the Moral Life. S. Verducci, M. Katz, G. Biesta (Eds). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Verlag Publishers. 9-30.

• Ronald David Glass. (2004). Moral and political clarity and education as a practice of freedom. In Democratic Dialogue and Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence, M. Boler (Ed), New York: Peter Lang. 15-32.

• Ronald David Glass. (2001). Paulo Freire’s philosophy of praxis and the foundations of liberation education. Educational Researcher. 30(2), 15-25.

Selected Recordings

Radio Interview: Reflections on Revolutionary Education and Paulo Freire's Life and Ideas. Against the Grain, Pacifica Radio Network. (https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=88090)

Radio Interview: Ron Glass, Profiles in Philosophy of Education (Episode 16) PiPELine. (http://www.pipeline.fm/podcast/?offset=1446391800000)

Advisees, Grad Students & Researchers , (msvigelj)

Courses EDUC 102, Education Media and Society
EDUC 104, Ethical Issues and Teaching
EDUC 110, Popular Education, Democracy, and Social Movements
EDUC 173, Critical Pedagogy
EDUC 207, Social Foundations of Education
EDUC 235 Introduction to Educational Research
EDUC 263, Foundations of Educational Reform
Educ 268, Schools Communities and Families
EDUC 295, Critical Theories and Education