Choice Factors Impacting Black Canadian Students’ Decisions to Attend University in Ontario

Chavannes, Vidal Alexander

Choice Factors Impacting Black Canadian Students’ Decisions to Attend University in Ontario

dc.contributor.advisor	Gereluk, Dianne
dc.contributor.author	Chavannes, Vidal Alexander
dc.contributor.committeemember	Simmons, Marlon
dc.contributor.committeemember	Steinberg, Shirley R.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Larsen, Marianne A.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Groen, Janet Elizabeth
dc.contributor.committeemember	Spencer, Brenda
dc.date	2019-06
dc.date.accessioned	2018-11-09T17:01:45Z
dc.date.available	2018-11-09T17:01:45Z
dc.date.issued	2018-10-10
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of this study was to explore, with a sample of fifteen (15) Black undergraduate students in Ontario, their considerations of the various factors that influenced their university choice process, including the decision to attend university, and to attend a particular institution. This research employed a qualitative case study methodology to understand the lived experiences of participants. Two data-collection methods were utilized, including a survey questionnaire and individual interviews. A review of the literature was conducted to devise a conceptual framework for the design and analysis of the study. The data from individual interviews, surveys and the researcher’s field notes, revealed participants' perceptions and experiences during the university application and enrolment processes, and was reviewed against the literature as well as emergent themes. Having analyzed the findings, it became clear that as Black communities in Canada have historically struggled for physical access to educational spaces, then control over the apparatus of education within those spaces, then for the development of independent Black alternatives; the lived experiences of the participants in this study, all Black undergraduate students, mirrors this trajectory. Participants, through their interview responses, told a story that would be familiar to students of educational histories pertaining to Black communities and those with the lived experience of interacting with educational spaces as Black people.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Chavannes, V. A. (2018). Choice Factors Impacting Black Canadian Students’ Decisions to Attend University in Ontario (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/33254	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/33254
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/109169
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.faculty	Werklund School of Education
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.publisher.place	Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject	Higher Education
dc.subject	Secondary Education
dc.subject	Black Canadian students
dc.subject	University Choice
dc.subject	Recruiting Black Students
dc.subject	Secondary to Post-Secondary Transition
dc.subject.classification	Education--Administration	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Education--Curriculum and Instruction	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Education--Guidance and Counseling	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Education--Higher	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Education--Secondary	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Education--Teacher Training	en_US
dc.title	Choice Factors Impacting Black Canadian Students’ Decisions to Attend University in Ontario
dc.type	doctoral thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Educational Research
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Education (EdD)
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