Arenas, Alberto - Assistant Professor
 

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Research: Environmental and sustainability education; sociology of education; work-based learning and other experiential education; history of education
Teaching: Environmental and sustainability education; sociology of education; research methods; history of education

Alberto Arenas (Ph.D., Berkeley) is an assistant professor who specializes in the intersection between sustainability education and sociology of education. Previously he was an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught at the Center for International Education. He was also a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellow in Colombia. One of his publications, Technical and vocational education and training for sustainable development: The challenges of implementation (2005), was published by UNESCO-UNEVOC in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. In 2008 he was the principal investigator of a training and research grant called “The Western Hemisphere Institute”, financed by the US State Department, to bring Latin American students to the UA to learn about the history and culture of the U.S., with an emphasis on sustainability and indigenous studies.

Recent Publications:

Arenas, A., Reyes, I., & Wyman, L. (in press). When modern and indigenous education collide. World Studies in Education.

Arenas, A. (2008). Connecting hand, mind, and community: Vocational education for social and environmental renewal. Teachers College Record, 110(2), 377-404.

Arenas, A., Bosworth, K., & Kwandayi, H. P. (2006). Civic service through schools: An international perspective. Compare, 36(1), 23–40.

Arenas, A., & Pedicone, J. J. (2005). Working through trauma. Education Week, 25(13), 36–37.

Arenas, A. (2004). Privatization and vouchers in Colombia and Chile. International Review of Education, 50(3), 379–395.

Arenas, A. (2003). In defense of good work: Jobs, violence and the ethical dimension. Social Justice, 30(3), 94–107.

Arenas, A. (2003). School-based enterprises and environmental sustainability. Journal of Vocational Education Research, 28(2), 107–124.

Arenas, A. (2001). If we all go global, what happens to the local? In defense of a pedagogy of place. Educational Practice and Theory, 23(2), 29–47.