Empowered Youth from a Marginalized School: Stories of Four Recent College Graduates
Location
Room 129
Proposal Track
Practice Report
Session Format
Round Table
Preferred Time
Friday morning
Abstract
qualitative study highlights the narratives of four recent college graduates who all graduated from a rural, Title One high school in Georgia. The researcher, also a participant in the phenomenological study, questions how teachers at various levels might foster empowerment in marginalized students. The four students all showed remarkable resiliency in college; the resilience literature from psychology is being used as a lens for this study. The students all saw factors fostering their empowerment as part of the formula for success and plan to pay that forward to younger children in their area.
Keywords
narrative inquiry, phenomenology, marginalized youth, rural schools
Recommended Citation
Adams, Megan, "Empowered Youth from a Marginalized School: Stories of Four Recent College Graduates" (2015). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 37.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2015/2015/37
Empowered Youth from a Marginalized School: Stories of Four Recent College Graduates
Room 129
qualitative study highlights the narratives of four recent college graduates who all graduated from a rural, Title One high school in Georgia. The researcher, also a participant in the phenomenological study, questions how teachers at various levels might foster empowerment in marginalized students. The four students all showed remarkable resiliency in college; the resilience literature from psychology is being used as a lens for this study. The students all saw factors fostering their empowerment as part of the formula for success and plan to pay that forward to younger children in their area.
