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
Reviews editor
Theory and Research in Education (SAGE)
Research interests
Education law and policy; custodial authority; children’s rights; aims of education in liberal democratic societies
Grants and awards
Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (2013)
Strategic Initiatives Grant, Spencer Foundation, Chicago, IL (2013)
Work in progress
Blokhuis, J.C., Feldman, J., van Geel, T. & Imber, M. (2020). Education Law, 6e. New York: Routledge. [under contract]
Recent publications
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. and Feldman, J. (2014). Education Law, 5e. New York: Routledge.
Imber, M., van Geel, T., Blokhuis, J.C. and Feldman, J. (2014). A Teacher’s Guide to Education Law, 5e. New York: Routledge.
Academic journal articles
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. and Blokhuis, J.C. (2017). “Defining Legal Studies in Canada,” Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education 12 (1): 7-18; REPRINTED in S. Tasson et al., [eds.] (2018). Introduction to Legal Studies, Vol. 1: Foundations and Rights Protection. Concord, ON: Captus Press, pp. 148-154
Blokhuis, J.C. (2016). “For Professional Educators, What Is ‘Meaningful Collaboration’?” Canadian Review of Social Policy 76 (1): 110-122
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
Curren, R. and Blokhuis, J.C. (2011). “The Prima Facie Case against Homeschooling,” Public Affairs Quarterly 25 (1): 1-19
Book chapters
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. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press [in press]
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. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press [in press]
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
Review essays
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
Blokhuis, J.C. (2014). “Taking Rights Seriously? On Realizing Educational Rights, by Anne Newman,” and “The Special Characteristics of Schools as Ethical Environments: On Understanding Student Rights, by Bryan R. Warnick,” Educational Theory 64 (6): 649-660
Blokhuis, J.C. and Williams, M. (2013). “A Most Unusual Review for a Most Unusual Book: Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline,” Theory and Research in Education 11 (3): 311-316; Reprinted in “Black Lives Matter: A Virtual Symposium,” Theory and Research in Education (2016). Online at https://journals.sagepub.com/page/tre/collections/virtual-issues/black-lives-matter
Courses taught at Renison
SDS 131R Social Ideas, Social Policy, and Political Practice
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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