Richard Mitchell
Associate Professor
Department of Child and Youth Studies
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Mitchell is a graduate of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, and completed his Ph.D in Sociology and Social Policy with Scotland's University of Stirling. His dissertation is entitled 'The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Postmodernity: A Grounded Systemic Analysis of Children's Rights Educational Policies in Scotland and Canada'. He has taught courses within childhood and youth studies, social work and qualitative research. In a previous career, Dr. Mitchell worked as a child and youth counselor in British Columbia education, mental health and specialized foster-care for two decades. His research and consultancy focus upon international and transdisciplinary approaches to implementing the human rights of children and young people within institutional and community-based settings.
Research Interest
Theoretical, Social, and Legal Constructions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; Human Rights Theory, Policy, Law and Practice; Citizenship and Social Policy; Discourses for Young People; Transdisciplinarity in Theory and Methodology; Critical Social Pedagogy; Participatory action, ethnographic and grounded theory approaches to research with Children and Young People; Sociology of Childhood; Sociology of Human Rights; Autopoietic Systems Theory
Publications
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R.C. Mitchell (2010) “Who’s Afraid Now? Reconstructing Canadian Citizenship Education through Transdisciplinarityâ€, Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 32(1): 37-65.
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"R.C. Mitchell (2011b) “Human Rights and Health Promotion: A Canada Fit for Children?â€, International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies 3/4: 510-526."
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R.C. Mitchell (2011a) “Sustaining Change on a Canadian Campus: Preparing Brock University for a Campus Sustainability Auditâ€, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 12(1): 7-21.
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"S.A. Moore & R.C. Mitchell (2011) “Theorising Rights-based Restorative Justice: The Canadian Contextâ€, The International Journal of Children’s Rights 19(1): 81-105. "
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"R.C. Mitchell, B. May, S. Purdy & C. Vella (2012) “UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: Towards Common Conceptual Ground†in The Biosphere, Dr. Natarajan Ishwaran (Ed. 2012), pp. 285-302."
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R.C. Mitchell (2013) “Reflections on the UNCRC from a Transdisciplinary Bricoleurâ€, Special Issue on The Future of Children’s Rights in The International Journal of Children’s Rights 21(3): 510-522.
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S.A. Moore & R.C. Mitchell (2015) “Introduction and Overview of Volume†in R.C. Mitchell and S.A. Moore (Eds. 2015), Planetary Praxis and Pedagogy: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Sustainability, pp. 1-8. Rotterdam, Boston and Taipei: Sense Publishers.
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R.C. Mitchell & S.A. Moore(Eds. 2015) Planetary Praxis and Pedagogy: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Sustainability. Rotterdam, Boston and Taipei: Sense Publishers.
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R.C. Mitchell & S.A. Moore (2015) “Muse, Ruse and Subterfuge: Transdisciplinary Praxis in Ontario’s Post-Secondary Bricolage?â€, The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 37(5): 393-413
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D. Bendo & R.C. Mitchell (2017) “The Role of Canada’s Child and Youth Advocates: A Social Constructionist Approachâ€, The International Journal of Children’s Rights 25(3): 1-24
