Eric DeMeulenaere comes to Clark University's Education Department from the San Francisco Bay Area, where he has been involved in urban education since 1991. Dr. DeMeulenaere taught middle and high school social studies and English in Oakland and San Francisco for eight years. He has also served as an adjunct professor in Education at the University of California Berkeley, the University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. More recently, he was the co-founder and director of an innovative small high school in East Oakland focused on social justice.
Before opening the school, Dr. DeMeulenaere earned his M.A. (1999) and Ph.D. (2003) in the Social and Cultural Studies Program at U. C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Education. His research focused on urban students' transformations of their academic identities and school performances.
Dr. DeMeulenaere has also worked as a consultant with urban schools, assisting them in transforming their organizational cultures to better serve the needs of students -- a role he will play in the Hiatt Center, as well. His clinical work is focused at the secondary level. He works with pre-service history teachers at secondary schools within the Hiatt - Main South Secondary School Collaborative. Additionally, he collaborates on the Hiatt Center K-16 curriculum team in History.
Dr. DeMeulenaere's current research includes an investigation on the influence of high school sports participation on student performance, analyses of the relationship of the culture of adult learning in schools to the overall change in student performance, and examinations on teacher quality in urban schools.
Courses Taught
Teaching and Learning I, II & III
Complexities of Urban Education
Ways of Knowing: History