Reconstructing Resilience: Including African -American Female Students in Educational Resiliency Research
Evans-Winters, Venus E.
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Description
Title
Reconstructing Resilience: Including African -American Female Students in Educational Resiliency Research
Author(s)
Evans-Winters, Venus E.
Issue Date
2003
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Wanda S. Pillow
Department of Study
Education
Discipline
Education
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Women's Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
Understanding that educational resilience is a process that is contextually bound, the study also includes a social, political, and economic historical analysis of the city where the study took place. Also, very important to this study is that the researcher introduces a new theoretical and methodological approach to studying school experiences of African American female students, called post-womanist research. Post-womanist research methods combine the tenets of postmodernism and Black feminism, for the study of resilience in urban education settings. The findings of the study indicate that the most educationally resilient students were those students who were able to access resources from the family, community, and school simultaneously. This research study has implications for urban education, social work practice, and women studies.
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