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Experiences Of African American Mothers Raising Gifted Children, Keisha Kavon Mcgill
Experiences Of African American Mothers Raising Gifted Children, Keisha Kavon Mcgill
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Equality in educational access has long been an area of concern for U.S. educators, policy makers, and advocates. Congress issued a mandate in 1969 to identify the needs of gifted students and to ensure that those needs were being met. However, the needs of gifted minority students were not specifically addressed. Little is known about how African American mothers are affected by the demands of raising and advocating for their gifted child. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological qualitative inquiry was to explore the lived experiences of African American mothers raising gifted children. The theory of womanism was used to …