Understanding to Overstand the education system: The educational journeys and experiences of Black British women graduates

理解并超越教育体系：英国黑人女毕业生的教育历程和经历

• 批准号: ES/W006073/1
• 负责人: April-Louise Pennant
• 金额: $ 12.74万
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW006073%2F1
• 关键词: Understanding; Overstand; education; system; educational

What are the educational journeys and experiences of Black British women graduates? What roles do their families and extended networks play? How do their ethnicities, cultural backgrounds and social class, along with their raced and gendered identities influence their educational experiences and journeys? These questions will be answered in a brand new book. An ambition this fellowship will enable me to fulfil based on my doctoral thesis. In doing so, this ensures the academic findings will reach a non-academic general audience. The proposed monograph will build on Mirza's ground-breaking book Young, Female and Black and highlight the unique challenges and racism encountered by this group. It will explore Black British women's experiences within different types of educational institutions; their disconnect from Eurocentric curriculums; alongside internalised pressures which impact upon their mental health. The book will illustrate their compelling commitment to achieving educational 'success', which sees them creating and employing individual and collective strategies to overcome challenges. The book will also offer an analysis of the narrow understandings of educational 'success,' which fails to acknowledge the historical inequalities within the education system that makes it difficult for Black British women graduates to achieve; highlighting when they do, it often does not yield the same rewards as those enjoyed by their peers. My original contribution to this field of research lies in the importance of understanding the ways in which Black British women graduates' multiple, overlapping and devalued identities interplay with educational structures. Unique insight will be offered on how race, gender and social class, as well as cultural background and ethnicity, together shape their experiences and journeys within the education system. These understandings will contribute to highlighting the antiblack systemic challenges of the education system, and how this specifically impacts on Black British women.The main aim of this book is to generate impact and engagement from a range of different audiences (as discussed in the next section) to assist in bettering the support within the educational experiences and journeys of Black girls and women. Through their experiential knowledge, narrated in the book, it will make a significant contribution to the sociology of education, in particular, the field of educational inequalities in relation to race, ethnicity, class and gender.Moreover, as I will be employing storytelling techniques as a tool to communicate the findings in the book, I will be advancing the theoretical frameworks of Critical Race Theory and Black Feminist perspectives, which are two of the frameworks that I utilise in my doctoral research.As part of the fellowship, I will acquire more advanced research methodological training, particularly in quantitative methods to support further research on Black women's occupational success following on from my PhD research. I also plan to strengthen my teaching by contributing to substantive modules in education and sociology, as well as research methods. I will also use this fellowship to build my academic network and to raise my research profile through participating in national and international conferences and study groups of the British Sociological Associations, the International Sociological Association, as well as the British Educational Research Association.At the end of the fellowship, I will have secured a book contract and completed the first draft of a monograph. I will also have developed my quantitative skills by undertaking advanced research methods training, and I will have begun to build international academic networks for possible collaborations in my future academic career.

英国黑人女性毕业生的教育历程和经历是什么？他们的家庭和扩展的网络扮演着什么角色？他们的种族、文化背景和社会阶层，以及他们的种族和性别认同如何影响他们的教育经历和旅程？这些问题将在一本全新的书中得到解答。这项奖学金将使我能够根据我的博士论文实现这一抱负。通过这样做，这确保了学术成果将到达非学术的普通受众手中。拟议的专著将建立在米孜的开创性著作《年轻、女性和黑人》的基础上，并突出这一群体遇到的独特挑战和种族主义。它将探讨英国黑人女性在不同类型的教育机构中的经历；她们与以欧洲为中心的课程的脱节；以及影响她们心理健康的内在压力。这本书将说明他们对实现教育“成功”的令人信服的承诺，这意味着他们创造并使用个人和集体的策略来克服挑战。这本书还将分析对教育“成功”的狭隘理解，这种理解未能承认教育体系中历史上的不平等，这些不平等使英国黑人女性毕业生很难取得成功；强调当她们取得成功时，往往得不到与同龄人一样的回报。我对这一研究领域的最初贡献在于，理解英国黑人女性毕业生的多重、重叠和被贬低的身份与教育结构相互作用的方式是重要的。将提供关于种族、性别和社会阶层以及文化背景和族裔如何共同塑造他们在教育系统内的经历和旅程的独特见解。这些理解将有助于强调教育系统的反黑人系统性挑战，以及这种挑战如何具体影响英国黑人妇女。本书的主要目的是从各种不同的受众(如下一节所讨论的)产生影响和参与，以帮助在黑人女孩和妇女的教育经历和旅程中更好地提供支持。通过他们在书中叙述的经验性知识，它将对教育社会学做出重大贡献，特别是与种族、民族、阶级和性别有关的教育不平等领域。此外，由于我将使用讲故事的技巧作为交流书中发现的工具，我将提出批评种族理论和黑人女权主义观点的理论框架，这是我在博士研究中使用的两个框架。作为奖学金的一部分，我将获得更高级的研究方法培训，特别是在定量方法方面，以支持在我的博士研究之后进一步研究黑人女性的职业成功。我还计划通过对教育和社会学的实质性模块以及研究方法的贡献来加强我的教学。我还将利用这笔奖学金来建立我的学术网络，并通过参加英国社会学协会、国际社会学协会以及英国教育研究协会的国内和国际会议和学习小组来提高我的研究形象。在奖学金结束时，我将获得一份图书合同，并完成一本专著的初稿。我还将通过接受先进的研究方法培训来发展我的量化技能，我将开始为我未来的学术生涯中可能的合作建立国际学术网络。

项目成果

Babygirl, You've Got This! Understanding the Experiences of Black Women in the English Education System

宝贝女孩，你有这个！

• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Pennant, A-L