Acting Associate Dean & Associate Professor, Social Development Studies
Education 
Ph.D., University of Rochester - Educational Leadership, Thought and Policy
J.D., University of Ottawa - Faculty of Common Law
M.S. Ed., Niagara University - Intermediate and Secondary Education
B.A. (Hons.), University of Ottawa - History/International and Comparative Politics
Member
Ontario College of Teachers (OCT)
Education Law Association (ELA)
Children's Rights Academic Network (CRAN)
Reviews editor
Theory and Research in Education (SAGE)
Research interests
Education law and policy; educational leadership; custodial authority; children’s rights; political ideology and social policy
Recent awards
Teaching Excellence Award (recipient), Renison University College (2021)
Distinguished Teaching Award (finalist), Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo (2021)
Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (2013)
Work in progress
As contributing volume editor
Blokhuis, J.C. (2022). Legal Foundations of Education, Vol. VI in Foundations of Education (Bruce Maxwell and Lauren Bialystok, series eds.). London, UK: Bloomsbury. [under contract]
As coordinating author
Blokhuis, J.C., Campbell, C.J., Campbell, C., and Christian, W. (2023). Political Ideologies in Canada. Toronto: Canadian Scholars. [under contract]
Recent publications
Blokhuis, J.C., Feldman, J., Imber, M. & van Geel, T. (2021). Education Law, 6e. New York: Routledge.
Covell, K., Howe, R.B. and Blokhuis, J.C. (2018). The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada, 2e. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Imber, M., van Geel, T., Blokhuis, J.C. & Feldman, J. (2014). A Teacher’s Guide to Education Law, 5e. New York: Routledge.
Recent articles and book chapters
Blokhuis, J.C. & Curren, R. (2021). “The Judicialization of American Education,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. New York: Oxford University Press (19 pp). Available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1602.
Blokhuis, J.C. & Smoke, A. (2020). “The Extraordinary Cases of J.J. and Makayla Sault,” in T.Waldock (ed.), A Question of Commitment: The Status of Children in Canada, 2e. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp. 223-237
Blokhuis, J.C. (2020). “The Supreme Court of Canada and the Convention,” in T. Waldock (ed.), A Question of Commitment: The Status of Children in Canada, 2e. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp. 161-178
Blokhuis, J.C. (2019). “Rights Talk, Redux,” in M. Laverty (ed.), Philosophy of Education 2018. Urbana, IL: PES, pp. 588-592
Blokhuis, J.C. (2019). “On Capability and the Obligation of Effective Power,” in A.Chinnery (ed.), Philosophy of Education 2017. Urbana, IL: PES, pp. 240-244
Curren, R. & Blokhuis, J.C. (2018). “Friday Night Lights Out: The End of Football in Schools,” Harvard Educational Review 88 (2): 141-162
Brophy, S. & Blokhuis, J.C. (2017). “Defining Legal Studies in Canada,” Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education 12 (1): 7-18
Blokhuis, J.C. (2015). “Student Rights and the Special Characteristics of the School Environment in American Jurisprudence,” Journal of Philosophy of Education 49 (1): 65-85
Recent reviews and review essays
Blokhuis, J.C. (2020).“Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice, by J.G. Dwyer and S.F. Peters,” Philosophical Inquiry in Education 27 (1): 83–87
d’Ailly, H. & Blokhuis, J.C. (2018). “Self-Determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness, by Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci,” Theory and Research in Education 16 (3): 378-385
Blokhuis, J.C. (2017). “Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation, by Adam Laats and Harvey Siegel,” Theory and Research in Education 14 (3): 346-349
Courses taught at Renison
SDS 131R Political Ideologies and Social Development (CEL)
SDS 210R/LS 273 Children’s Rights in Canada (CEL)
SDS 215R Education and Social Development from a Global Perspective
SDS 405R Cosmopolitanism and Social Development (CEL)
SDS 431R Radical Ideology and Social Policy
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Renison University College
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