Dissertation
Dads & daughters: understanding the African American fathers' perceived influences on their daughters' academic experiences and educational outcomes
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Drexel University
Sep 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/etd-7786
Abstract
This dissertation used a microsystemic analysis approach to explore the experience of five African American fathers and their perceived influences on their daughter's academic experiences and educational outcomes including higher on time graduation rates and increased pursuit of post-secondary education within the context of the father's residential status. This study utilized a phenomenological research study design to collect data via in depth interviews from African American fathers who have experienced this phenomenon. This study provided an alternative view of African American fatherhood that needs to be present in the literature. In many African American homes, the residential status of the father is among the overabundance of factors contributing to the amount and quality of father involvement. Participants were delineated into two categories: 1) Residential fathers involved and 2) non-residential fathers involved. Within these categories, three major themes and four minor themes emerged. These findings highlight practices that foster increased father involvement as well as, both present and future challenges impeding African American fathers' ability to establish and sustain quality degrees of involvement and father-daughter relationship quality, an area that is minimally covered in current literature, as well as clinical implications of the findings and directions for future research.
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Details
- Title
- Dads & daughters
- Creators
- Lauren D. Pitts - DU
- Contributors
- Kristine S. Lewis Grant (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- xii, 164 pages
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Education (1997-2026); Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 7786; 991014632160304721