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Seeing Education Through A Black Girls' Lens: A Qualitative Photovoice Study Through Their Eyes

Meyers, Lateasha Nicol
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5924-7230
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1586263706742763

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Educational Leadership.
Through a Black Feminist and Black Girlhood Studies lens, this qualitative photovoice study explores the ways in which Black girls construct and make meaning of self and their educational experiences. Five Black adolescent girls from a leadership and mentoring after-school experience took pictures, interviewed, and participated in group discussions to co-create knowledge about themselves and their experiences. Through the analysis, there were four themes that were found. Voice, this highlighted the ways in which the co-researchers felt like they are often not listened to by educators, but also how they insert their voice on their own terms. The second theme, the politics of identity, illuminated how the co-researchers wanted to be judged as individuals, but also acknowledged that they are a part of a larger group (i.e African American and gendered as girls). The third theme, defining self/ Black girlhood displayed the ways in which, the girls chose to define themselves in comparison to how they felt others see them. Finally, the fourth theme, Space & place illustrated what the girls felt people could do in order to improve Black girls experiences in school and allow for space for them to be able to self-define and explore their identities. Through this study, the co-researchers created an emerging framework, Black Girlhood as Visual Oppositional Knowledge.
Lisa Weems (Committee Chair)
Denise Taliaferro Baszile (Committee Member)
Brittany Aronson (Committee Member)
Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis (Committee Member)
181 p.
African Americans; Education; Multicultural Education
Black Girls; Photovoice; Education; Black Feminist theory; Representation; Black Girlhood as Visual Oppositional Knowledge

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  • Meyers, L. N. (2020). Seeing Education Through A Black Girls' Lens: A Qualitative Photovoice Study Through Their Eyes [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1586263706742763

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Meyers, Lateasha. Seeing Education Through A Black Girls' Lens: A Qualitative Photovoice Study Through Their Eyes . 2020. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1586263706742763.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Meyers, Lateasha. "Seeing Education Through A Black Girls' Lens: A Qualitative Photovoice Study Through Their Eyes ." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1586263706742763

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