Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
Exploring African-American Women's Perspectives towards and Experiences with Educational and Communications Technologies
Department
School of Education
College
College of Education
Date Range
2010-2011
Abstract
This is a qualitative case study conducted to explore African-American women professionals' perspectives towards and experiences with educational and communications technologies (ECT). Unlike more traditional case studies, the "case" under examination here is not physically bound to a specific geographic locale; instead, it is bounded in its specific focus on investigating the impact of ECT on the lives of college-educated African-American women professionals. It specifically seeks to describe the role of ECT in the process by which these women proactively formulate their unique self-identities, reflecting a theoretical perspective inspired by the culture-based models proposed by noted educational sociologists Paul Willis and Henry Giroux. The proposed study follows an established personal interview-based methodology successfully employed by the author in previously published studies focusing on other demographics. This study holds much potential value in that it focuses on a demographic that has received remarkably little scholarly attention within the field of educational technology (ET).
Conference Name
2010 AECT International Convention
Conference Location
Anaheim, CA
ScholarWorks Citation
Subramony, Deepak, "Exploring African-American Women's Perspectives towards and Experiences with Educational and Communications Technologies" (2010). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 96.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/96
