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Grandmothers' Leadership Roles as Reflected in the Lives of High-Achieving Women: A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Grandmothers on Granddaughters During Their Formative Years

Asante, Sylvia E.M.
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6007-5424
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1432040817

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2015, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
The purpose of this study is to document and recognize the role of grandmothers as leaders, role models, and mentors who can positively influence the lives of their granddaughters. Grandmothers’ roles are not typically associated with leadership, and this phenomenon of presenting grandmothers as effective leaders will fill a void and add to the canon of leadership literature. The use of phenomenological study, which describes the lived experience (Husserl, 1970), as well as transformative leadership and feminist theory perspectives will be pivotal to this study. Due to the dearth of data on grandmothers’ leadership roles, this phenomenological study will "give voice" to grandmothers whose lives have positively impacted their granddaughters, but it will avoid revisionist ideals; will provide granddaughters with the opportunity to acknowledge "gifts" of leadership provided by their grandmothers as their role models and their mentors; will aid in understanding the importance of grandmothers in the transmission of culture and of family values; and, as an international study, will explore and provide further understanding within the global community. This dissertation is available in open-access at OhioLink ETD Center, www.ohiolink.edu/etd and AURA: Antioch University Repository and Archive, http://aura.antioch.edu/
Jon Wergin, PhD (Committee Chair)
Laurien Alexandre, PhD (Committee Member)
Janet Powers, PhD (Committee Member)
Gaynell Simpson, PhD (Other)
139 p.
Families and Family Life; Gender; Gender Studies; Psychology
granddaughters; grandmothers; leadership; phenomenology; narrative; role models; mentors; mentoring; families; positive; women; gender; human females; feminism; diversity; multicultural; multigenerational; life cycle

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  • Asante, S. E.M. (2015). Grandmothers' Leadership Roles as Reflected in the Lives of High-Achieving Women: A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Grandmothers on Granddaughters During Their Formative Years [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1432040817

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Asante, Sylvia. Grandmothers' Leadership Roles as Reflected in the Lives of High-Achieving Women: A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Grandmothers on Granddaughters During Their Formative Years. 2015. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1432040817.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Asante, Sylvia. "Grandmothers' Leadership Roles as Reflected in the Lives of High-Achieving Women: A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Grandmothers on Granddaughters During Their Formative Years." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1432040817

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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