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Terri S. Wilson is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at CU 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 ‘public goods’ of education, including equity, justice and democratic participation.��

Wilson aims to connect philosophy to pressing questions in education policy, asking both conceptual questions (e.g., what is “the public” in public education?) and normative ones (e.g., what identities should be recognized in school choice?). Some of her representative publications include: “Contesting the Public School: Reconsidering Charter Schools as Counterpublics” (American Educational Research Journal), “When is it Democratically Legitimate to Opt Out of Public Education?” (Educational Theory), “Exploring the Moral Complexity of School Choice,” (Studies in Philosophy and Education) and “Philosophy and Education Policy,” a chapter for the AERA Handbook of Education Policy Research.��

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.��

Wilson has been at CU 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.