Title Information
Title
An Analysis of How K-12 Educational Experiences Affect Black Women in Higher Education
Abstract
The present thesis examines the K-12 educational experiences of Black undergraduate women to better inform education policy. Much of education literature on Black girls highlights disciplinary policies, disparate outcomes, or the influence of educators on their experience from researching Black girls. Yet, there is less of a focus on how Black women in higher education conceptualize their K-12 school experiences, which may offer further insight to practices that hinder or aid in positive school experiences for Black girls. Using semi-structured interviews as a qualitative research method, this thesis explored the narratives of nine Black undergraduate women reflecting on their K-12 educational experience. Through an iterative inductive coding process, four themes emerged marking their common experiences: security in school environment, navigation of identity, structures of support, and quality of educator relationships & instruction. The findings highlight the permeation of antiblackness in educational environments, as well as how the women learn to navigate spaces and events as a result of their identity. The results also revealed how certain practices affirm Black girls and improve their educational landscape. I hope my findings contribute to comprehensive understandings of Black girls and transforms policy to create learning environments that are conducive to Black girl identities.
Name: Personal
Name Part
Tukpah, Nailah
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cre")
creator
Name: Personal
Name Part
Levitas, Anthony
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ths")
thesis advisor
Name: Personal
Name Part
Chaney, Mahasan
Role
Role Term
reader
Name: Personal
Name Part
Murphy, Kiana
Role
Role Term
reader
Name: Corporate
Name Part
Brown University. Public Policy
Role
Role Term: Text
sponsor
Origin Information
Copyright Date
2023
Type of Resource (primo)
text_resources
Physical Description
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born digital
Language
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English
Note: thesis
Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2023
Note (displayLabel="Concentration")
Public Policy
Genre (aat)
theses
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Topic
Education
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01178916")
Topic
Women, Black
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/")
Topic
race
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/02013361")
Topic
Teenage girls, Black--Social conditions
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/")
Topic
K-12
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