Perception of African American Women Pursuing Online Doctorate Degree

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CHAPTER 02: LITERATURE REVIEW1

Introduction1

Exploring the topic4

Over Viewing the History5

Increased level of Awareness7

The Role played by Public Intellectual8

Fundamentals issues faced by African American Women in Higher Education10

Limited Population of African American faculty12

Classroom experiences13

African American community's response14

The Gender Gap in Black Ph.D. Awards15

Doctorates Awarded by Historically Black Universities15

Racial Disparities in Ph.D. Awards16

African American Women Are Moving Ahead Rapidly18

A Profile of Black/African American Doctorate Recipients18

Online Vs Traditional Learning23

Issues in Online Doctorate Programs24

Stress in Female Students25

Quality and Rigor27

Face-to-Face Interaction29

Mentoring31

Accreditation and Reputation34

Summary36

REFERENCES39

CHAPTER 02: LITERATURE REVIEW

Introduction

For the purpose of exploring literature for the current study topic, only few published dissertations were found that studied the concerns regarding the online education at doctorate level. The possible reason for such handful researches is the speed with which online education and learning is growing and has permeated the doctorate level education. Thus, there is the absence of ample time required to carry out formal inquiry and debate.

This particular chapter is going to do a review of various researches which are conducted in the area of concern so far. This particular chapter is going to lead the researcher to have a good idea of all the relevant information which is there for topic being discussed in the chapter. This chapter is going to deal with a very important area which is so far considered by numerous researchers but still need a huge amount of concentration. The African Americans have been a part of United States from centuries, but they have faced do many ill behaviors in the part many year. Here, the paper will be looking on the facts related to the issues confronted by them at the time of being awarded the doctorates. This research is although going to keep the female population of the selected group into account in most of the part. This is being done as the women were the group of African American which has faced more issues then the males. This fact makes the need of making them part of the research really important.

In this paper the researcher is going to first of all explore the topic, and then this will lead the researcher towards a very in-depth over viewing of the history associated with the African American Women and their earlier achievements which have made them worth discussing in the topic. This will then lead literature review towards the matters like increased level of awareness, role of the public intellectual, issues confronted by Afircan Amerians, limited population of african american faculty, classroom experiences, responses o the African American communities, gender gap in black Ph.D. awards, racial Disparities, role and pace of the women and profile of the group in the overall American Ph D. awards. This will then end up with a summary of the overall chapter in the end of the chapter.

The doctorate is the highest academic degree which is awarded to those students who complete the specified program that offers a contribution to the society by excelled academic ...