Writing

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Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Ruglis, J & Low, B. (Editors). (2024). Special Issue: “Towards New Futures of Child and Youth Development: Critical and Sustainable Approaches to Wellbeing in Complex Times.” Learning Landscapes, 17(1).

Ruglis, J & Low, B. (2024). Editorial Introduction to Special Issue. Learning Landscapes, 17(1), 7-14.

Ruglis, J & St-Victor, KA. (2024). Airglow: Young people and wellbeing.” Learning Landscapes, 17(1): 27-36.

Middleton, JC,  Williams, S & Ruglis, J. (2024) Leveraging the Clinical Importance of the Therapist as a Person in Family Therapy. International Journal of Systemic Therapy, 35(2), 145-177.

Henson, A, Ruglis, J, Sinacore, A, Fitzpatrick, M, Lanteigne, D. (2021). Self-compassion for youth in small city centres: A school-based pilot project. Counselling & Psychotherapy Research, 21(3), 719– 728. 

Krueger-Henney, P., & Ruglis, J. (2020). “PAR is a way of life: Participatory action research as core re-training for fugitive research praxis.” Education Philosophy & Theory, Special Issue: “Living the Dystopian-Utopian Tension as Praxis: Transformative Dreaming with/in/for Education and Educational Research.” T. Kress & R. Lake (Eds.).

Vallée, D., & Ruglis, J. (2017). Student disengagement among English-Speaking youth in Montreal. Educational Studies, 53(3), 285-314.

Ruglis, J. (2016). Theorizing participatory action research and outdoor experiential education: Pedagogy for engagement and well-being through social justice. Pathways: Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, (29)1, 4-9.

Ruglis, J., & Vallée, D. (2016). Student disengagement as/and unfairness: Re-reading schools through photos. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 14(2), 186-216.

Fine, M., & Ruglis, J. (2015). Circuits and consequences of dispossession: The racialized realignment of the public sphere for U.S. youth. Open Anthropology, 3(2), Special Issue: Approaching Youth In Anthropology (Eds: J. Antrosio & S. Han).

Ruglis, J. (2011). Mapping the biopolitics of school dropout and youth resistance. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 24(5), 627-637.

Ruglis, J., & Freudenberg, N. (2010). Towards a healthy high schools movement: Strategies for mobilizing public health for educational reform. American Journal of Public Health, 100(9), 1565-1571.

Ruglis, J. (2010). Conversations with PAR and public health: Response to ‘fat bodies, qualitative research and the spirit of participatory action research.’ International Review of Qualitative Research, 3(3), 351-354.

Fine, M., & Ruglis, J. (2009). Circuits and consequences of dispossession: The racialized realignment of the public sphere for U.S. youth. Transforming Anthropology, 17(1), 20-36.*

* Cited in Brief of Amici Curiae to the Supreme Court of the United States, Graham & Sullivan vs. State of Florida. (No. 08-7412, No. 08-7621) which examines the legality of juvenile sentencing on adolescent development

Freudenberg, N., & Ruglis, J. (2008). Reframing high school dropout as a public health issue [Response to Letters]. Preventing Chronic Disease, 5(2), A69.

Freudenberg, N., & Ruglis, J. (2007). Reframing school dropout as a public health issue. Preventing Chronic Disease, 4(4), 1-11.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Nichols, N., Ruglis, J. (2021). “Institutional Ethnography and Youth Participatory Action Research: A Praxis Approach” (pp. 527-550). In: Luken, P.C., Vaughan, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Ruglis, J., & Freudenberg, N. (2011). Towards a healthy high schools movement: Strategies for mobilizing public health for educational reform. In T. Wright & J. Richardson (Eds.). School-Based Health Care: Advancing Educational Success and Public Health (Chapter 27, pp. 671-687). Washington, DC: APHA Press.

Fox, M., Mediratta, K., Ruglis, J., Stoudt, B., Shah, S., & Fine, M. (2010). Critical youth engagement: Participatory action research and organizing. In L. Sherrod, J. Torney-Purta & C.A. Flanagan (Eds). Handbook of Research and Policy on Civic Engagement in Youth (pp. 621-649). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Ruglis, J. (2007). Dropout. In S. Mathison & E.W. Ross (Eds.) Battleground Schools, Volume 1 (pp. 194-203). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing. 

Creative Research Products

Ruglis, J. (2024). Night swimming. LIGHT: Leaders Igniting Generational Healing & Transformation. (blog)

Ruglis, J. (2008). Monument to racism. Racism Review. (blog)

Ruglis, J (Director), Tesfaye, R (Executive Producer), Morris-Gabriel, T, Shanklin, M, Huggins, D, Curtis, K & Bactad, AS. (2018).  SYD Says Podcast, Episode 01: Racial Profiling

Ruglis, J (Director), Tesfaye, R (Executive Producer), Morris-Gabriel, T, Shanklin, M, Huggins, D, Curtis, K & Bactad, AS. (2018).  SYD Says Podcast, Episode 02: Participatory Research

Ruglis, J. (2017, September 30). “Discovering Light in Dead Space: Multiple Narratives, Multiple Truths and Fractured Trajectories in Lifecourse Development.” Confabulations, co-hosted with Broad Science. Centre Phi. Montreal, QC.

Ruglis, J. (Producer, Director, Writer, Editor). (2008). Corporate Disease Promotion in NYC: A Youth Research Project. (YouTube video)

Other Research Products

Policy briefs, legal testimony, policy advocacy products, participatory research training curriculum (workshops, institutes, university courses) for youth and communities, curriculum and training for teachers and counsellors, trainings on research for social equity, policy development and policy advocacy, podcasts, live storytelling, peer-review conference papers and presentations.

Selected Student
Publications

Peer Review Journal Articles

Bayarsaikhan, A. (2017). Where do you dwell? Neighborhood as a determinant of school attendance in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Journal of Education & Social Policy, 4(4), 32-41.