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Title: | SOLHOT: black girlhood celebration of love, literacy, hip-hop and motherhood |
Author(s): | Lewis, Sheri |
Advisor(s): | Brown, Ruth N. |
Department / Program: | Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp |
Discipline: | Educational Policy Studies |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | M.A. |
Genre: | Thesis |
Subject(s): | Black girls
Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT) love practices pedagogy |
Abstract: | In order to create pedagogical methods and practices committed to educational attainment and healthy lifestyles one must recognize the impact of love as pedagogy. In my paper, I demonstrate how I utilize a concept I call “love practices” within a Black-girl-centered space entitled “Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths” (SOLHOT). When exploring the utility of love as practice among Black girls, in SOLHOT, at a local middle school in Champaign, Illinois, I ask the following: what is the relationship between love and Black girlhood? What is/are the impetus, motivation(s), and commitments of Black girls to a girl-centered space? What does it mean to be a part of a space for girls that foreground love? To assess Black girls in a context of love practices, I employ autoethnography, a method that permits me to openly discuss my experiences and research as self-reflective interpretations. My key findings, such as humility, listening, practice, imagining a critical space for Black girls, and recognizing complexities of love, are the critical lessons that have contributed to the process of organizing SOLHOT. |
Issue Date: | 2013-05-24 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/44433 |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2013 Sheri Lewis |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2013-05-24 2015-05-24 |
Date Deposited: | 2013-05 |
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Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois