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Author:

Sessoms, Amber Michelle

Title:

The Merging of the Personal and the Collective: Reimagining Black Natural Hair Care Digital Spaces as Sites of Critical Public Pedagogy

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

natural hair
black hair
black women
african american women
digital spaces
blogs
critical public pedagogy
identity development
adult learning
adult identity development
blogging
online learning communities
critical consciousness
identity formation
popular culture
adult education
african american hair
black womanhood

File:

Download Sessoms_2017_FINAL_Dissertation_w_Vita.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin Redmon Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Peter Jones Kareithi, Committee Member
Adnan A Qayyum, Outside Member

Author:

Whalen, Gina

Title:

Giving Voice to the Transformative Learning of Mothers who Lost a Child to Suicide

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

transformative learning
suicide
child loss
bereaved mothers
feminist perspectives on adult learning
autoethnography
narrative
grief
suicide loss survivors
suicide bereaved
critical reflection
discourse dialogue
adult education
suicide postvention

File:

Download Final_Whalen_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Member
Gina Brelsford, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Outside Member
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Program Head/Chair