Richard MACLURE

Associate Professor

LMX 213

Telephone: (613) 562-5800-4034

E-Mail: rmaclure@uottawa.ca

Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Richard Maclure is a professor and former Acting Dean in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. He holds a Ph.D. in international development education from Stanford University, an M.A. in international affairs from Carleton University, and a graduate teacher certificate from the University of London, U. K. He is the recipient of several teaching and research awards, including the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for his ethnographic research on animation rurale in Burkina Faso. Besides his academic career, his professional experience in international development has included work as : a CUSO cooperant teacher in Nigeria; a field director for PLAN International in Burkina Faso; and an education program officer with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). He has conducted grant-funded research in sub-Saharan Africa and Central America, and he has undertaken consultancies with UNICEF, CIDA, IDRC, USAID, PLAN International, and the Governments of Denmark and the Netherlands. His research program centres on child-rights approaches to basic education, international aid to education, and civil society capacity development.

Maclure, R., R. Sabbah, & D. Lavan (in press). ‘Education and Development: The perennial contradictions of policy discourse’, in P. Beaudet, P. A. Haslam, & J. Schafer (eds.), Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, and Issues. Oxford, U. K.: Oxford University Press.

Maclure, R., & M. Denov (in press). ‘Reconstruction without Reform: Girls’ education in post-conflict Sierra Leone’, International Journal of Educational Development. [50%]

Maclure, R., B. Kabore, C. Mvoto Meyong, & D. Lavan (2007). Civil Society in the Governance of Basic Education: Partnership or Co-optation? Burkina Faso Country Field Study. CIDA.

Denov, M., & R. Maclure (2007). ‘Turnings & Epiphanies: Militarization, life histories, and the making and unmaking of two child soldiers in Sierra Leone’, Journal of Youth Studies, 10 (2), pp. 243 – 261.

Maclure, R. (2006). ‘No Longer Overlooked and Undervalued? The evolving dynamics of endogenous educational research in sub-Saharan Africa’, Harvard Educational Review, 76(1), pp. 80 – 109.
(Reprinted in Piper, B., Dryden-Peterson, S., & Kim, Y.-S., (eds.), International
Education for the Millennium: Toward access, equity, and quality. Harvard
Education Review Reprint Series, No. 42.

Maclure, R. (2006). ‘Pragmatism or Transformation? : Participatory evaluation of a humanitarian project in Sierra Leone’, Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 21(1), pp. 107 – 129.

Maclure, R., & Denov, M. (2006). ‘ “I Didn’t Want to Die so I Joined Them” : Structuration and the process of becoming boy soldiers in Sierra Leone’, Terrorism and Political Violence, 18 (1), pp. 119 – 135.

Denov, M., & R. Maclure (2006). ‘Engaging the Voices of Girls in the Aftermath of Sierra Leone’s Conflict: Experiences and perspectives in a culture of violence’, Anthropologica, vol. 48 (1), pp. 1 – 13.

Maclure, R., O. Gakuru, & M. Sotelo (2006). ‘Social Policies and Marginalized Urban Youth: Centrist Prescriptions and Divergent Local Practices’, Proceedings of the AUCC/IDRC Colloquium on North-South Collaborative Research (pp. 21 – 31). Ottawa: IDRC Press.

Maclure, R., & M. Sotelo (2004). ‘Youth Gangs in Nicaragua: Gang membership as structured individualisation’, Journal of Youth Studies, 7 (4), pp. 417 – 432.

Maclure, R., & M. Sotelo (2004). ‘Children’s Rights and the Tenuousness of Local Coalitions: A case study in Nicaragua’, Journal of Latin American Studies, 36 (1), pp. 85 - 108.
(Reprinted in Ensalaco, M., & L. Majka, eds. (2004). Children’s Human Rights:
Progress and Challenges. Boulder, Colo.: Rowman & Littlefield.)

Maclure, R., K. Campbell, & M. Dufresne (2003). ‘Young Offender Diversion in Canada: Tensions and contradictions of social policy appropriation’, Policy Studies, 24 (2/3), pp. 135 – 150.

Maclure, R., & M. Sotelo (2003). “Children’s Rights as Residual Social Policy in Nicaragua : State priorities and the Code of Childhood and Adolescence”, Third World Quarterly, 24 (4), pp. 671 - 689.

Kresch, R., & R. Maclure (2003). ‘Education and Human Security in Sierra Leone : Discourses of failure and reconstruction’ in W. Nelles (ed.), Comparative Education, Terrorism, and Human Security (pp. 141 –158). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Faure, S. D., R. Maclure, N. Coulibaly, & K. Dow Sao (2003). Joint Evaluation of External Support to Basic Education in Developing Countries : Country Case Study Report : Burkina Faso. Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CIDA, & UNICEF.
(French-language volume: Solutions locales à des défis mondiaux : Vers un
partenariat efficace en éducation de base : Burkina Faso.)

Maclure, R. (2001). Rapid Education for Child War Victims in Sierra Leone: An Evaluation of PLAN International’s Rapid Educational Intervention. PLAN International, U.K.
(Reprinted in, Children in Disasters: After the cameras have gone, ed., Amer
Jabry. PLAN International, U.K., 2002).

Maclure, R. (2000). "NGOs and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Instruments of hegemony or surreptitious resistance?”, Education and Society, 18 (2), pp. 25 - 45.
(Reprinted in Clayton, T., ed. (2006). Re-Thinking Hegemony. Boulder, Colo.: James Nicholas.)

2004, DANIDA (Government of Denmark) / Government of Nepal: Member of the Joint Government-Donor Evaluation team assessing Nepal’s Basic and Primary Education Programme II.
2002 – 03, Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada (AUCC) / Government of the Netherlands: Member of the international Joint Government-Donor Evaluation of Basic Education team assessing: a) international aid and basic education in Burkina Faso, and b) the global overview of international aid and basic education in developing countries.
2000 - 01, PLAN International: Head of an evaluation team examining PLAN International’s Rapid Educational Program in four displaced people’s (IDP) camps in Sierra Leone
1998 - 99, CIDA: Education policy advisor for the elaboration of CIDA’s Education Strategy and Programming Framework.
1997, CIDA: Consultant for the Development Planning Assistance Project in conjunction with the Government of Indonesia (Ministry of Planning).
1996, UNICEF: Facilitator and resource person at the annual Innocenti Global Seminar (Florence, Italy): Children and Families of Ethnic Minorities, Immigrants, and Indigenous peoples (Education and the Schools)

EDU 8105	Contemporary Issues (doctoral student seminar)
EDU 8001	Doctoral Seminar in Education
EDU 5465	Global and Comparative Education
EDU 5373	Education of Marginalized Youth
EDU 5222	Ethnographies of Schooling
EDU 5218	Comparative and International Education
EDU 5216	Fundamental Issues in Education: Comparative Perspectives
EDU 5214	Sociocultural Foundations of Education
PED 3134	Global Education and Social Justice