As a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Education at UBC, Wright co-edited Challenges & Prospects for Canadian Social Studies (Pacific Educational Press, 2004), an updated version of Trends & Issues in Canadian Social Studies. With a four-decade-long teaching career, he has also published Elementary Social Studies: A Practical Approach to Teaching and Learning. 5th ed. (Toronto, Prentice Hall, 2001), Is That Right? Critical Thinking and the Social World of the Young Learner (Toronto: Pippin, 2002) and Challenges and Prospects for Canadian Social Studies (Vancouver: Pacific Educational Press, 2004).

[BCBW 2004] "Education"