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Direct linkRichardson, Sydney D. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
This study demonstrates adult women college students overcoming challenges due to mistreatment in order to succeed academically. Asking each participant to tell her life story allowed the researcher to find common narratives of mistreatment among them, while using critical feminist and constructivist theories for analysis. As a result, the…
Descriptors: College Students, Womens Education, Academic Persistence, Personal Narratives
