Reconstructing Resilience: Including African -American Female Students in Educational Resiliency Research

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Evans-Winters, Venus E.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Wanda S. Pillow

• Women's Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3086056

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/79723