Paul Clarke was born in
Coventry, Warwickshire. He was educated at John F.Kennedy
School in Hemel Hempstead, and went on to study at the
Universities of London (B.A.), Leeds (PGCE), Lancaster
(M.A) and Manchester (Ph.D).
He is married to Eithne, who
is a midwife, and has four children, Alice, Imogen, Isaac
and Hannah.
Paul currently works as a Senior Lecturer at Leeds
Metropolitan University (LMU) and he is an associate of the
International School Effectiveness and Improvement Centre,
at the University of London Institute of Education.
His professional work is both
research and teaching based. He is involved at a national
and international level on school improvement initiatives,
and is researching into the theme of organisational
sustainability. This work is informed from an involvement
in a number of development projects focused on the "future
of schools". This work draws upon new designs for schools
arising from the possibility of new technology, an
increasing interest internationally in alternative school
models, and theory on emergent systems and change.
Paul has worked, researched
and published extensively on teacher empowerment, school
reform, improvement and sustainability in local, regional,
national and international school improvement agencies. He
is the author of three books. His new book "Learning
Schools, Learning Systems" comes out in Spring 2000
(Cassell School Development Series) is based on a long term
project which is developing teaching and learning support
networks.
Paul is currently planing the development of the Future
Schools Forum which acts as a "think tank" for redesigning
schools for the times we live in, rather than the world
that we have left behind, making better use of "know how",
rather than just "knowledge".
Paul lives in Todmorden
Lancashire where he spends too much time in front of
computers writing, when not doing that he can be found
climbing on the local rock faces, sitting in the pub,
supporting Coventry City FC, running (chasing his dog) and
playing tennis.
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