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"I Got This": Single Black Millennial Mothers Describe Their Journey to Self-efficacy as First Teachers

Cooper, Robin Dennise
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6227-8521
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1532625443827325

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2018, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Educational Leadership.
Many of the narratives, media images, and studies depicting the phenomenon of single Black mother are dangerously destructive and misrepresentative of this population. Add into that phenomenon the descriptor millennial and one finds the research is limited. There is need for intervention that will deconstruct the master narratives and decolonize the minds of all who have been affected by them. With Black feminist thought/womanism as a methodological approach and narrative inquiry as the research method, this qualitative study offers that intervention and serves as a space from which knowledge about the mothers being studied is produced by the mothers being studied. One-on-one semi-structured interviews, video group chats, and group texts were used to gather these counter stories from the five single Black millennial mother participants. Choice emerges as the foundational tenet for a “I got this” philosophy that acts as a guiding principle for the behaviors of these intellectuals from “outside academia” (Walker, 2009, p.20). Choosing to embrace single motherhood, secure their children, self-define, determine their own worth and destiny, give and accept support represent a few of the methods the single Black millennial mothers employ to undergird their sense of self-efficaciousness as first teachers to their children.
Kate Rousmaniere, Ph.D (Committee Chair)
Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Tom Poetter, Ph. D. (Committee Member)
Sherrill Sellers, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
215 p.
Education; Educational Leadership
single mothers; single Black mothers; millennial mothers; Black millennials; parental self-efficacy; first teachers, parental choices; self-definition; counterstories

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  • Cooper, R. D. (2018). "I Got This": Single Black Millennial Mothers Describe Their Journey to Self-efficacy as First Teachers [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1532625443827325

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cooper, Robin. "I Got This": Single Black Millennial Mothers Describe Their Journey to Self-efficacy as First Teachers . 2018. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1532625443827325.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cooper, Robin. ""I Got This": Single Black Millennial Mothers Describe Their Journey to Self-efficacy as First Teachers ." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1532625443827325

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