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Making It: Resilient Women Overcoming Adversity in Defiance of Negative Predictors of Success

Making It: Resilient Women Overcoming Adversity in Defiance of Negative Predictors of Success

Meccouri, Linda L.

Paperback

Self-HelpWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1581120354
ISBN13: 9781581120356
Publisher: Dissertation.com
Published: Dec 1 1995
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Social indicators such as low socioeconomic status, minority status, battering, chronic illness, trauma, drug and alcohol addiction, and poor social environment are negative predictors of educational and social success. Why is it that some people, however, overcome adversity and succeed despite the odds? This study identifies and describes the context and factors involved for an ethnically diverse group of twenty adult women from low socioeconomic status being able to succeed despite the odds. Using qualitative in-depth oral history interviews, this study includes women whose voices are seldom heard in the literature - those who have many of the social indicators associated with failure, but who have defied the negative predictors for success and persisted beyond high school to post-secondary education. Among the questions explored are: How do these women define success? What were the barriers? What were the factors in overcoming adversity? and how can their voices inform policy and practice in adult and post-secondary educational programs?

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