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The Spiritual Journey: Black Female Adult Learners in Higher Education

Jones Tinner, LaShanta Y., Ph.D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384334101

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2013, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services: Educational Studies.
This study explored the experience of Black female adult learners and how spirituality influenced their academic journeys. Research concerning Black female adult learners in higher education is ostensibly partial. These data offered an extended understanding of Black female adult learners' academic experiences, while also investigating common reasons for attending school and expounding upon the connection between spirituality and academic survival. Womanist theory and the outsider within concept framed this work. This qualitative study used narrative inquiry and autoethnographic design. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect the stories of Black female adult learners' academic experiences from a spiritual perspective in an effort to unveil how they maneuvered through the educational system. The results were five oral presentations of Black female adult learners including the author written as testimonial narratives. The findings may prove beneficial to the Student Affairs profession as well as the fields of Psychology, Social Foundations in Education, African-American Studies, Women Studies, and Theology.
Vanessa Allen-brown, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Bleuzette Marshall, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Lanthan Camblin, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Stephen Sunderland, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
192 p.
Higher Education
Black Female Adult Learners; Spirituality in Higher Education; Womanist Theory; Outsider Within; African Americans in Higher Education; Autoethnography

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  • Jones Tinner, L. Y. (2013). The Spiritual Journey: Black Female Adult Learners in Higher Education [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384334101

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jones Tinner, LaShanta. The Spiritual Journey: Black Female Adult Learners in Higher Education. 2013. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384334101.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jones Tinner, LaShanta. "The Spiritual Journey: Black Female Adult Learners in Higher Education." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384334101

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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