Terri S.Wilson

  • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Director, MAHE
  • Program Chair, EFPP
  • EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS, POLICY & PRACTICE
  • MASTER'S IN HIGHER EDUCATION
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Terri S. Wilson is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at 麻豆免费版下载Boulder. A philosopher of education, Wilson employs interdisciplinary methodological approaches to explore the moral and political complexity of education policy. Her scholarship focuses on the relationship between individual choices, rights and interests in education, and how these intersect with the 鈥榩ublic goods鈥 of education, including equity, justice and democratic participation.听

Wilson aims to connect philosophy to pressing questions in education policy, asking both conceptual questions (e.g., what is 鈥渢he public鈥 in public education?) and normative ones (e.g., what identities should be recognized in school choice?). Some of her representative publications include: 鈥淐ontesting the Public School: Reconsidering Charter Schools as Counterpublics鈥 (American Educational Research Journal), 鈥淲hen is it Democratically Legitimate to Opt Out of Public Education?鈥 (Educational Theory), 鈥淓xploring the Moral Complexity of School Choice,鈥 (Studies in Philosophy and Education) and 鈥淧hilosophy and Education Policy,鈥 a chapter for the AERA Handbook of Education Policy Research.听

Taken as a whole, her work aims to develop a better understanding of the distinctly public aims of education, and how policy might best further those aims. Across these different projects, she remains interested in exploring how philosophy offers methodological resources for exploring the moral and ethical dimensions of education.听

Wilson has been at 麻豆免费版下载Boulder since 2015, and teaches courses in philosophy of education, education policy and research methodology. She previously taught at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and was a National Academy of Education/ Spencer Postdoctoral Scholar. Wilson completed her PhD in Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and previously worked for the St. Paul Public Schools, as well as with different community engagement and organizing initiatives in Minnesota.