Samuel D. Rocha

Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies
Email: sam.rocha@ubc.ca 

Dr. Rocha was promoted to Associate Professor and awarded the Killam Teaching Prize at UBC in 2019. At the end of 2019, he released his third full-length album, Anamnesis, and in 2020 he released a single, “The Freedom of Dialectic,” inspired by the life and thought of Maxine Greene. His newest book, The Syllabus as Curriculum: A Reconceptualist Approach, was published in 2020 and received the same year’s Outstanding Book Award from AERA: Division B, Curriculum Studies.

Research Area: Philosophy of Education, Curriculum Theory, Educational Theory, Political Philosophy, Ethics and Moral Philosophy, Philosophical and Humanities Research Methods, and Special Texts and Topics