Posted: April 13th, 2023
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1. Definition of terms and why you chose to use the word African American
Please make sure you have a sections in Chapter one defining the terms and why you chose to use the words African American.
a. African American instead of Black because of the negative connotations associated with the word Black. Table of Contents: Must be numbered properly.
c. Male, female, boy, girl d. white instead of White 2. Significantly tighten literature review around mentoring 4. Revise the research questions for clarity with open ended question a. What is mentorship and what does it look like? 5. Include page numbers 6. Focus methodology language a. Qualitative language of document review that is systematic beyond a literature review b. Discourse analysis – is essentially what you are looking at, what are the words that are said about peer articles.
7. Critical Race Theory as a conceptual framework instead of Maslow
How am I going to use terms and why… I’m using African American and WHY?
Narrative Review of 81 articles
Review of Mentorship Program websites (For African American Boys). What can be learned from those websites?
Content analysis of websites, mentorship programs. (VERY IMPORTANT!)
Do a search on (5-8) and a content analysis on 5-8 websites regarding the African American Mentorship Programs
Chapter 4 data: Mentorship Program Websites and the 81 articles. MUST HAVE/Need tables!!!!
Analysis or findings
Chapter 5: Discussion of Chapter 4 results. It’s like a reaction paper from the results.
Standard Review Tool: What are the programs for, What is the Structure of the Program, Who started the program, Who funds the Programs, What are the Programs meant to do? About 5-7 need to be asked and answered in the same format for each article.