Ron Scapp is director of the Graduate program in urban and Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx, New York, where he is also associate professor of humanities and teacher education. He has written on a variety of topics ranging from popular culture to education and from social and political philosophy to art criticism. He sits on numerous New York City and State education policy committees, including the New York State Teacher Centers/Higher Education Advisory Committee and is a member of the UFT/New York City Teacher Center policy board. He has recently been named a fellow of the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University.
Ron is the author of Teaching Values: Critical Perspectives on Education, Politics, and Cultures (Routledge, 2003) and Managing to be Different: Educational Leadership as Critical Practice (2006). In addition, Ron is the co-editor of a philosophy and cultural studies volume, Eating Culture and the forthcoming Etiquette: Reflections on Contemporary Comportment (both with the State University of New York Press). Ron is the co-editor of the series Hot Topics: Contemporary Philosophy and Culture (SUNY Press) and has collaborated with others on different projects, most notably with cultural critic and author Bell Hooks in her books Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom and Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (both with Routledge).
