Terry Wotherspoon is Professor and Head of Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan. He has also been designated Adjunct Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, and Visiting Professor at Lanzhou University and Northwest University for Nationalities, all in China. He has degrees in Sociology and Education, and a Ph.D. in Sociology. In addition to several years of teaching experience at elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels, he has engaged in research and published widely on issues related to education, social policy, indigenous peoples, and social inequality in Canada. His research has been funded by agencies such as SSHRC, Saskatchewan Learning, the Laidlaw Foundation, and the Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration. He is a recipient of the Canadian Education Association’s Whitworth Award for Educational Research, while The Sociology of Education in Canada: Critical Perspectives was recognized with a book award from the Canadian Association for Foundations of Education. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Prairie Metropolis Centre, and is Managing Editor of the Canadian Review of Sociology.

Terry Wotherspoon. 2009. The Sociology of Education in Canada: Critical Perspectives, 3rd edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press.      

Terry Wotherspoon and Bernard Schissel. 2003. The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education, Oppression, and Emancipation. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.

Vic Satzewich and Terry Wotherspoon. 2000. First Nations: Race, Class, and Gender Relations. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center [with new introduction – originally published with Nelson Canada].

Terry Wotherspoon and Paul Jungbluth, editors. 1995. Multicultural Education in a Changing Global Economy: Canada and the Netherlands. Münster/New York: Waxmann.

Terry Wotherspoon, editor. 1991. Hitting the Books: The Politics of Educational Retrenchment. Toronto: Garamond Press; Saskatoon: Social Research Unit.

Terry Wotherspoon, editor. 1987. The Political Economy of Canadian Schooling. Toronto: Methuen. 

Terry Wotherspoon, 2008.  “Balancing Global Challenges and Social Justice in Teachers’ Work: The Case of Aboriginal Education in Canada,” in Shannon A. Moore and Richard C. Mitchell, editors, Power, Pedagogy and Praxis: Social Justice in the Globalized Classroom. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 149-164.

Terry Wotherspoon, 2008. “Teachers’ Work Intensification and Educational Contradictions in Aboriginal Communities,” Canadian Review of Sociology 45(4): 385-414.

Terry Wotherspoon, 2008. “Transformations in Canadian Nursing and Nurse Education,” in B. Singh Bolaria and Harley D. Dickinson, editors, Health, Illness and Health Care in Canada, 4th ed. Scarborough, ON: Thompson Nelson, 99-121.

Terry Wotherspoon, 2008. “Education,” in Lorne Tepperman, James Curtis, and Patrizia Albanese, editors, Sociology: A Canadian Perspective, 2nd ed. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 244-273. [chapter reprinted in Lorne Tepperman (ed.), Principles of Sociology: Canadian Perspectives, 2nd ed.]

Terry Wotherspoon, 2007. “Incorporation of Aboriginal Labour,” in Sean Hier and B. Singh Bolaria, editors, Race and Racism in 21st Century Canada: Continuity, Complexity, and Change. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 131-150.

Terry Wotherspoon, 2006. “Teachers’ Work in Canadian Aboriginal Communities,” Comparative Education Review 50(4): 672-694.

Terry Wotherspoon 2005. “The Boundaries of Public Education in the Knowledge-Based Economy,” in Bruce Ravelli, editor, Exploring Canadian Sociology: A Reader. Toronto: Pearson, 187-198.

Bernard Schissel and Terry Wotherspoon, 2005. “The Legacy of Residential Schools,” in Valerie Zawilski and Cynthia Levine-Rasky, editors, Inequality in Canada: A Reader on the Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 188-207. 

Terry Wotherspoon, 2003. “Aboriginal People, Public Policy, and Social Differentiation in Canada,” in Danielle Juteau, editor, Social Differentiation: Patterns and Processes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 155-204 [also published as “Les Autochtones, les politiques socials et la differentiation sociale au Canada,” dans Danielle Juteau (dir.), La differentiation sociale: modèles et processus. Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 155-203].

Terry Wotherspoon. 2003. “Prospects for a New Middle Class Among Urban Aboriginal People,” in David Newhouse and Evelyn Peter, editors, Not Strangers in these Parts: Urban Aboriginal Peoples. Ottawa: Policy Research Initiative, 147-165.

Terry Wotherspoon, 2002. “Nursing Education: Professionalism and Control,” in B. Singh Bolaria and Harley D. Dickinson, editors, Health, Illness, and Health Care in Canada, 3rd revised edition. Toronto: Nelson Thompson, 82-101.

Terry Wotherspoon and Bernard Schissel, 2001. “The Business of Placing Canadian Children and Youth ‘At-Risk’,” Canadian Journal of Education, 26(3): 321-339.

Terry Wotherspoon and Bernard Schissel, 2000. “Marginalization, Decolonization and Voice: Prospects for Aboriginal Education in Canada,” in Yves Lenoir, William Hunter, Douglas Hodgkinson, Patrice de Broucker, and André Dolbec, editors, A Pan-Canadian Education Research Agenda. Ottawa: Canadian Society for Studies in Education, 193-214.

Terry Wotherspoon, 2000. “Transforming Canada’s Education System: The Impact on Educational Inequalities, Opportunities, and Benefits,” in B. Singh Bolaria, editor, Social Issues and Contradictions in Canadian Society, 3rd ed. Toronto: Harcourt Brace & Company, 250-272.

B. Singh Bolaria and Terry Wotherspoon, 2000. “Income Inequality, Poverty and Hunger,” in B. Singh Bolaria, editor, Social Issues and Contradictions in Canadian Society, 3rd ed. Toronto: Harcourt Brace & Company, 73-90.

Terry Wotherspoon, 1999. “The Incorporation of Public School Teachers into the Industrial Order: British Columbia in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,” in Pat Armstrong and M. Patricia Connelly, editors, Feminism, Political Economy and the State: Contested Terrain. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 23-56 [version of article originally published in Labour/Le Travail, Spring, 31: 75-110].

Terry Wotherspoon, 1999. “Towards Meaningful Analysis of Educational Practices and Possibilities: Response to Richard Heyman,” Studies in Philosophy and Education, 18: 457-460.

Terry Wotherspoon and Joanne Butler, 1999. “The Contributions of Education and Work to Sustainability and Well-Being in Changing Rural Communities,” Health and Canadian Society, 5(2): 245-262.

Terry Wotherspoon, 1998. “Education, Place, and the Sustainability of Rural Communities in Saskatchewan,” Journal of Research in Rural Education, Winter, 14(3): 131-141.

Terry Wotherspoon, 1996. “The Hidden Curriculum,” in Bernard Schissel and Linda Mahood, editors, Social Control in Canada: Issues in the Social Construction of Deviance. Toronto: OxfordUniversity Press, 335-351.

Terry Wotherspoon, 1995. Occupational Divisions and Struggles for Unity Among British Columbia’s Public School Teachers. B.C. Studies, Autumn, 107: 30-59.

Terry Wotherspoon, 1995. The Incorporation of Public School Teachers into the Industrial Order: British Columbia in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Studies in Political Economy, Spring, 46: 119-151.

Terry Wotherspoon and Paul Jungbluth, 1995. “Multiculturalism and Education in Changing Political Economies,” in Terry Wotherspoon and Paul Jungbluth, editors, Multicultural Education in a Changing Global Economy: Canada and the Netherlands, 1-22.

Terry Wotherspoon, 1995. “Multiculturalism and the Management of Race and Ethnic Relations in Canadian Schooling,”in Terry Wotherspoon and Paul Jungbluth, editors, Multicultural Education in a Changing Global Economy: Canada and the Netherlands, 41-60.

B. Singh Bolaria, Harley D. Dickinson and Terry Wotherspoon, 1995. “Rural Issues and Problems,” in B. Singh Bolaria, editor, Social Issues and Contradictions in Canadian Society, 2nd ed. Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada, 419-443.

Terry Wotherspoon, 2007. Teaching for Equity? What Teachers Say About their Work in Aboriginal Communities. Education Canada, Fall, 47 (4): 64-68.

Terry Wotherspoon. 2007. The Challenge to Maintain a Strong Public Education System in Saskatchewan. Regina: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Saskatchewan Office, October. http://www.policyalternatives.ca/documents/Saskatchewan_Pubs/2007/Public_Education_SK.PDF

Terry Wotherspoon, Bernard Schissel and Trina Evitts, with Joanne Butler and Jason Doherty and support from Barbara Young and Pat Erhardt. 2006. Community Schools Data Collection Project Provincial Report. Regina: Saskatchewan Learning, January. http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/branches/pol_eval/community_ed/docs/csdc_final.pdf

Terry Wotherspoon, 2004. “Education as Public Place and Inclusive Space,” Education Canada, Winter, 44 (1): 12-15; 51.

Terry Wotherspoon, 2002. The Dynamics of Social Inclusion and Exclusion in Public Education in Canada, Laidlaw Foundation Initiative on Social Inclusion, June. http://www.laidlawfdn.org/cms/file/children/wotherspoon.pdf

Terry Wotherspoon, 1999. “Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Dimensions of Social Differentiation, Inclusion and Exclusion,” Working Paper Prepared for SSHRC/Policy Research Secretariat Project on Trends, March.

Terry Wotherspoon and Bernard Schissel, 1998. “Marginalization, Decolonization and Voice: Prospects for Aboriginal Education in Canada,” Discussion Paper Prepared for Pan-Canadian Research Agenda, Council of First Ministers of Education, December. http://www.cmec.ca/stats/pcera/compaper/98-54en.pdf

Bernard Schissel and Terry Wotherspoon, 1998. “An Investigation Into Indian and Métis Student Life Experience in Saskatchewan Schools,” Research Report Prepared for Saskatchewan Indian and Métis Education Research Network and Minister of Education, Province of Saskatchewan, October.