Maureen W. McClure
Senior Research Associate
Director, Indonesia GINIE Program
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5911 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
Email: mmclure@pitt.edu
Education


Areas of Expertise

  • Educational Strategy and Finance in Decentralized, Crisis-driven and Chronically Weak Regional Political Economies
  • Internet-Based Peer Learning Networks for Professional Development
  • Interagency Coordination

Professional Biography

Dr. McClure is an Associate Professor in the Administrative Policy and Studies Department and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies in Education. She served as the Chair of the Department of Administrative and Policy Studies at the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh from January 2004 to August 2007. She is also the director of the Global Information Network in Education (GINIE) project. She is heading up a university team for USAID’s five year Decentralized Basic Education (DBE2) project in Indonesia. Dr. McClure is also an associate editor of the Comparative Education Review and a member of the board of editors for Leadership and Policy in Schools and Educational Considerations. In 2004-5 she led a team that conducted a global strategic review of UNICEF’s Child Friendly Spaces/Environments.  In addition she has served on national level education policy teams including: a) Reconstruction of the Ministries of Education and Higher Education, Iraq; b) The British Council/World Bank/Ministry of National Education Decentralized Strategy for Education Finance, Jakarta; c) UNESCO/Iraq (Project for computers and workforce transition under the United Nation's Oil-for-Food project); d) UNESCO, UNICEF and World Bank for post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina projects - transitional education with cantonal and federal ministries of education; and e) Asian Development Bank- National Academy for Educational Administration in China, focused on a strategic assessment of national level higher education policy and management in a decentralizing economy. She is a past member of the US Technical Planning Panel for Education Finance at the National Center for Education Statistics. She is a past elected member of the national board of the American Educational Finance Association (AEFA) and was its webmaster from 1996-2000. She has served on the editorial boards of the Leadership and Policy in Schools; the Educational Administration Quarterly, the American Educational Research Journal and the Journal for Justice and Caring in Education. She is past-president of the Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance SIG at the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She was a Channel Scholar at Sohag University, Egypt in the Economics of Education. She has also worked as a US federal programs coordinator for a multi-county administrative district, a secondary school teacher in both urban and suburban schools, a tutor at a community college and a state university.

Research Interests & Current Projects

Her research focuses on issues of education finance, Internet technology and regional economic development. Her primary work is related to regions in crisis and transitional economies. She is interested in the financial sustainability of education through professional collaborative relationships in chronically weak economies. Dr. McClure has consulted with USAID, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNHCR, NAEA, and The World Bank on development projects in a number of international contexts. She is currently the director of the Global Information Network in Education (GINIE) project, an Internet-based learning community for education and professional development in nations in crisis and transition to decentralization. The GINIE project has been sponsored by USAID through its Improving Educational Quality (IEQ) project, as well as by UNESCO, UNHCR and UNICEF. The GINIE project has supported the creation of two UN-led interagency coordination networks, the Network on Education in Emergencies (NEE) and the Secondary Education Reform and Youth Policy (SERYP) network. Professor McClure’s international research is primarily related to professional development networks related to ‘safe places for children to learn’ using the Internet and field-based strategy in unstable political and economic regions. Most recently she is heading up a university team for USAID’s five year Decentralized Basic Education (DBE2) project in Indonesia. The purpose is to establish sustainable partnerships with ten universities in Central Java, South Sulawesi, East Java and Banda Aceh, serving a general population of about 85 million people.  She is also working on education and human security issues with the Ford Center for Human Security.  This research includes cost-effective policies to prevent the recruitment of child soldiers during conflicts.

Courses Taught

  • ADMPS 3302 – Education & Development Debates
  • ADMPS 3106 – Educational Planning & Evaluation
  • ADMPS 3091 – Research Educational Administration 1
  • ADMPS 3101 – Resources Management
  • ADMPS 3109 – Strategic Management in Education
  • ADMPS 3096 – Supervised Research Educational Administration 2


Selected Publications

McClure, W.M. (2008). The Goat Stays: Wise Investments in Future Neighbors: Recruitment Deterrence, Human Agency and Education. Chapter with G. Retamal.  Ford Center for Human Security, (in press).

McClure, W.M. (2006). Youth Security in Refugee Camps: How Humanitarian Education Turned Them from Recruitment Centers for Soldiers to Child Friendly Spaces w. G. Retamal  (invited lecture) The Ford Institute of Human Security and Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO, The Research Council of Norway, September 14–16, 2006.

McClure, M.W. (2006). The protection of childhoods: Who Owns the Responsibilities? with G. Retamal. Invited paper for The Child Soldier Initiative: Building Knowledge About Children and Armed Conflict. A collaborative project of: the Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO, The Research Council of Norway and  the Ford Institute of Human Security, Oslo, June 1–3, 2006.

McClure, M.W. (2003–5). Child-Friendly Spaces/Environments: Six Case Studies - Global Institutional and Sectoral Strategy for Coordinating Relief and Development Work in Chronic Crises and Major Transitions  (UNICEF –Major Internal Strategic Review– Monograph).

McClure, M.W. (2003). Crisis Education Strategy: Where Are We Now?  Strategic Positioning and Policy with in the International Development Community IEQII.  Washington, DC: USAID.

McClure, M.W. (2003). Cheating Death in the Schoolyard: Education in Emergencies and the Education For All (EFA) Movement.  Comparative Education and International Studies (CIES) New Orleans, March.

McClure, M.W. (2002). Crisis Education Strategy: Generational Security.  Commonwealth Education Partnerships: 2003. Commonwealth Secretariat. London: TSO; pp. 98–101.

McClure, M.W. (2002). With Frank Method. It Takes Schools to Raise a Nation. Prepared for the Afghanistan-American Summit on Recovery and Reconstruction, Georgetown University and the Embassy of Afghanistan, Washington, DC, July 24–25.

McClure, M.W. (2002). Schools Ready To Teach, Children Ready To Learn, Communities Ready to Protect Both: Minimum Service Standards In Indonesia Jakarta: British Council. (A World Bank funded project in partnership with the Indonesian Ministry of National Education) (annexes).

McClure, M.W. (2002). Bridging the Generational Divide: A Strategy For School Improvement Within The Context Of Fiscal Decentralization. McClure, M. W.; & Triaswati, N. Jakarta: British Council. (A World Bank funded project in partnership with the Indonesian Ministry of National Education).

McClure, M.W. (2002). Policy Planning for Secondary and Youth Education in Crisis and Post-Crisis Nations. with Vargas-Baron, E. Bureau Regional de l’UNESCO pour l’Education en Afrique (BREDA)/ UNESCO: Dakar.

McClure, M.W. (2002). Internet Learning in Unlikely Places: Supporting Education in Nations with Crisis with F. Method, UNESCO and M. Amodeo, UNICEF, TechKnowLogia 3(4) 2001.