Professor
claudia [dot] mitchell [at] mcgill [dot] ca (E-mail)
Phone: 514-398-1318
Areas of interest
- Youth, gender and AIDS
- Youth culture
- Visual and arts-based research methodologies
- Girls education in development studies
- Teacher identity
Description of research/teaching activities
In my current funded research, I am focusing on school-based responses to HIV/AIDS in Southern African contexts, dress, body and identity in teacher education, girls and digital technology, and gender in development contexts (Swaziland, South Africa, Russia). This includes work on youth participation, policy work on sexual violence in and around schools, and the uses of media and popular culture in social change.
Selected publications/presentations
De Lange, N, Mnisi, T., Mitchell, C. & Park, E. (2010). Giving life to data: University-community partnerships in addressing HIV and AIDS through building digital archives. E-learning and Digital Media, 7(2).
Mitchell, C., Dillon, D., Strong-Wilson, T., Pithouse, K., Islam, F., O’Connor, K., Rudd, C., Staniforth, P. and Cole, A. (Jan, 2010). Things fall apart and come together: Using the visual for reflection in alternative teacher education programmes. Changing English. 17, 1 (45-55).
Mitchell, C. & Pithouse, K. (2009). Teaching and HIV/AIDS in the South African classroom. Johannesburg: Macmillan.
Moletsane, R., Mitchell, C., De Lange, N. Stuart, J., Buthelezi, T. & Taylor, M. (2009). What can a woman do with a camera? Turning the female gaze on poverty and HIV/AIDS in rural South Africa. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 22(3), 315-331.
Moletsane, R., Mitchell, C., De Lange, N. Stuart, J., Buthelezi, T. & Taylor, M. (2009). What can a woman do with a camera? Turning the female gaze on poverty and HIV/AIDS in rural South Africa. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 22(3), 315-331.
Pithouse, K, Mitchell, C. & Moletsane, R. (2009). Making connections: Self-study and social action. New York: Peter Lang.
Mitchell, C. (2008). Taking the picture, changing the picture. Visual methodologies in educational research in South Africa. South African Journal of Educational Research. 28 (3)365-383.