Robyn Ruttenberg-Rozen
PhD
Associate Professor
Research Excellence Chair, AI and the Future of Inclusive STEM Education
Faculty of Education
Contact information
Charles Hall
- Room 333
Downtown Oshawa
61 Charles Street
Oshawa, ON L1H 4X8
905.721.8668 ext. 3767
Bio
Dr. Robyn Ruttenberg-Rozen is a transdisciplinary researcher who explores the tensions and possibilities of belonging and inclusion in STEAM learning environments for typically underserved, linguistically and culturally diverse, and exceptional populations of learners and their teachers or professors. Her work explores the nexus of STEAM learning, emerging technologies, agentic strategies and STEAM identities in STEAM educational contexts. At the centre of her research is the study of change, innovation, and inclusion. Using a transdisciplinary approach, she focuses on humanizing STEAM learning and disrupting deficit perceptions that ‘other’ learners in STEAM learning environments.
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Courses taught
Bachelor of Arts (Educational Studies)
- AEDT 4150U - Holistic Learning in Early Childhood
- EDST 3170U - Developing Numeracy
Bachelor of Education
- EDUC 1303U - Primary/Junior STEM I
- EDUC 1304U - Primary/Junior STEM II
- EDUC 1308U - Primary/Junior Mathematics Thinking and Doing
- EDUC 1310U - Intermediate/Senior Mathematics Thinking and Doing
- EDUC 2406U - Reflective Practice/Action Research
Graduate
- EDUC 5001G - Principles of Learning
- EDUC 5301G - Foundations of Curriculum for the 21st Century
- EDUC 5302G - Critical Debates in Education
- EDUC 5504G - Inclusive Pedagogical Spaces
Research and expertise
- Equity and access in STEAM education for typically underserved populations of learners
- Growth and pathways of mathematical understanding
- Interventions and innovative practice in pedagogical spaces that support all learners
- Learners experiencing mathematics difficulties
- Equity in online learning spaces
- Intersectionality and identity in STEAM education
- Developing awareness of implicit biases
- Ruttenberg-Rozen, R. & Nieminen, J. (2025). A story about mathematics difficulty, tools, and making growth visible. For the Learning of Mathematics, 1(1), 16 - 21.
- Husband, M., Ruttenberg-Rozen, R. & Elkington, R., (2025). Supporting emergent mathematics teacher leaders towards developing their inclusive leadership practice. In C. Smith & L. Schnellert (Eds.), Research in Teacher Leadership in Canada: Transformative and Contextualized Agency. CATE.
- Ruttenberg-Rozen, R., Ayekun, O., Arthur, D. & Powell, N. (2025). A motley crew of historically marginalized postsecondary STEM women share narratives from a STEM Counterspace. 2025 AERA Annual Meeting. Denver, Co.
- Rana, S. & Ruttenberg-Rozen, R. (2024). Critical consciousness in STEM and its impact on identity and agency among racialized learners. The 35th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education. Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Ruttenberg-Rozen, R. & Muchmaker, J. (2024). Early childhood teacher agency and Creative insubordination through STEAM learning. In W. Yang, S. Kewalramani, & J. Senthil (Eds), Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) Education in the Early Years: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (Ch. 13). Routledge.
- Mamolo, A., Tepylo, D., Ruttenberg-Rozen, R. & Rodney, S. (2023). Learning math through coding and learning coding through math: Two sides of the same coin. Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 22, 974-985. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42330-022-00254-x
- Ruttenberg-Rozen, R., Mahendirarajah, S. & Brady, B. (2022). Educating awarenesses in an online reflective practice course: Becoming aware of implicit biases leaps to judgement. In E. Mikulec & T. Ramalho (Eds.), Enacting Critical Pedagogy Online (pp. 263-280). J.P. Lang.
- Ruttenberg-Rozen, R. (2020). A Wonder-Full task leads to a Wonder-Full intervention. Mathematics Teacher: Teaching and Learning PK-12, 113(6), 474-479. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2018.0026
- Ruttenberg-Rozen, R. (2018). Revisiting and growing prior knowings for learners experiencing mathematics difficulties. 42nd Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Umea, Sweden.
- Thouless, H. R., Owens, K., Ruttenberg-Rozen, R., Tzur, R. & Xin, Y.P. (2018). Maths and Special Education Working Group. 42nd Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Umea, Sweden
- Chorney, S., Noble, T., Ruttenberg-Rozen, R. & Setati Phakeng, M. (2016). Sharing space with the other to discuss mathematics education and social justice. For the Learning of Mathematics, 36(3), 46-51
- Ruttenberg-Rozen, R. & Mamolo, A. (2016) Exploring tensions: Leanne’s story of supporting pre-service mathematics teachers with learning disabilities. In T. Fukawa-Connelly, N.E. Infante, M. Wawro & S. Brown (Eds), Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Mamolo, A., Ruttenberg-Rozen, R. & Whiteley, W. (2015). Developing a network of and for geometric reasoning. ZDM Mathematics Education, 47(3), 483-496.