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Philipsen, Maike – Journal of Negro Education, 1993
Focuses on the academic decision making of several female African Americans in a rural southern (primarily African-American) town by considering their personal school experiences and their interpretations of the value of education in their community contexts. Preliminary findings show many contradictions between educational beliefs and actual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Black Attitudes, Blacks