Richard Maclure

Possui doutorado em International Development Education, - Stanford University (1988). Atualmente é professor - cross-appointment - University of Ottawa. Richard Maclure is a professor of comparative and international education in the Faculty of Education, with a cross-appointment in the School of International Development & Global Studies (SIDGS), at the University of Ottawa (Canada). He holds a Ph.D. in international development education from Stanford University and a Post-Graduate Teachers Certificate from the University of London. He has conducted externally funded research on education, community development, and children?s rights in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, the dynamics of children?s participation in West Africa, and youth social capital formation in Central America and Canada. His publications include a co-edited book, Children?s Rights and International Development: Lessons & challenges from the field (2011), an edited special edition of the International Journal of Children?s Rights (2014) focusing on child and youth rights in Latin America, and a chapter in the Handbook of Children?s Rights: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2017). Prior to his academic career he was a secondary school teacher for two years in Nigeria as a CUSO cooperant and for a further two years in Inuvik, NWT. Subsequently he served as a field director for PLAN International in Burkina Faso, and as a program officer with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). http://www.researcherid.com/rid/I-6130-2018