Against all odds: The role of ‘community cultural wealth’ in overcoming challenges as a black African woman

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dc.contributor.authorNkambule, Thabisile
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-17T13:43:41Z
dc.date.available2016-06-17T13:43:41Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractAcademic challenges for students from ‘previously disadvantaged backgrounds’ do not necessarily begin at university, but start during their school years, as was the case for the author. This article is in three parts. Firstly, the author presents a brief narration of the challenges faced before she went to university, which influenced her undergraduate progress. Secondly, the author describes the key challenges she experienced as an undergraduate in particular courses and in a postgraduate education course. Thirdly, she focuses on the challenges she encountered during her first work experience as a black African PhD student and tutor on an education campus. In particular, the author focuses on key challenging incidents and how she approached and engaged with them to enable a successful journey through university as a student and young academic staff member. In the form of a first-person narration, the qualitative research method of ‘testimony’ is used to reflect critically on her academic and professional journeys as a black African woman in the post-apartheid era. Testimony was chosen because it provides an epistemic lens to support an analytical inquiry into experiences and intellectual understanding of self and community.en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNkambule, T. (2014). Against all odds: The role of ‘community cultural wealth’ in overcoming challenges as a black African woman. South African Journal of Higher Education, 28(6), pp. 1999-2012.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1011-3487
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/20494
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUnisaen_ZA
dc.subjectCommunity cultural wealth – South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectBlack African women – higher education – South Africaen_ZA
dc.titleAgainst all odds: The role of ‘community cultural wealth’ in overcoming challenges as a black African womanen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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