research overview
- My 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. My work connects philosophy to pressing questions in education policy, asking both conceptual (e.g., what is “the public” in public education?) and normative questions (e.g., what identities should be recognized in school choice?). I am currently working on three main areas of research: (1) philosophical questions about school choice, differentiation and justice, (2) organizational contexts of choice, (3) and broader tensions between individual rights and the public aims of education, including questions raised by refusing or “opting out” of public education. Across these strands, I aim to develop a better understanding of the distinctly public aims of education, and how policy might best further those aims.
