Bøger af Claudia Mitchell

Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. Focusing on place across health, literary and historical studies, art history, communications, media studies, sociology, and education allows for investigations of how girlhood is positioned in relation to interdisciplinary and transnational research methodologies, media environments, geographic locations, history, and social spaces. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks that directly engage girls in the research process.Claudia Mitchell is a James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University and an Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She has written extensively in the area of girlhood studies and is the co-founder and editor-in-chief for the award-winning Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.Carrie Rentschler is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Feminist Media Studies in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, and Associate Member and former Director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University. She is the author of Second Wounds: Victims' Rights and the Media in the U.S. (Duke University Press, 2011).

A guide to how participatory visual methods and arts-based methods can influence social change and make a significant contribution to policy dialogue.

Visual methods are becoming more popular across many subject areas in the social sciences, since the technology necessary is now so accessible. Mitchell is a big name in visual methods, and this book is an easy intro for anyone new to using visual methods.

In this title, the authors focus primarily on methods of researching children's popular culture as well as offering analyses of such phenomena as children's websites and the internet, and popular toys like Barbie.

Explores the images of teachers and teaching that permeate the lives of Children And Adults, Shaping In Unrecognised Ways Their Notions Of Whom teachers are and what they do. The text shows how it is possible to analyse drawings of teachers,

Designed for use by teachers and teacher educators, this text should help both novice and experienced teachers reinterpret their working lives.