Date of Award
5-2010
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Program
Educational Administration
Department
Educational Leadership, Counseling, and Foundations
Major Professor
Del Favero, Marietta
Second Advisor
Bedford, April
Third Advisor
Cropley, Lorelei
Fourth Advisor
Beabout, Brian
Abstract
This study examines the phenomenon of student resiliency as it relates to Nunez Community College students who returned to attend school in the community of St. Bernard Parish following Hurricane Katrina. Nunez Community College is located in Chalmette, Louisiana, fifteen miles east of the City of New Orleans. The community is adjacent to the Lower Ninth Ward. This study seeks to answer the questions of why the students returned to a disaster-stricken area to continue their studies and how the students coped in the aftermath. There is a significant gap in the literature on post-disaster resiliency and in particular, the role of education in post-disaster recovery. Twelve students who returned to Nunez Community College post-Katrina were interviewed using a Student Resilience Model as a conceptual framework. The perceptions of the students' post-disaster experiences resulted in five themes which included Individual Resilience, Post-Disaster Academic Integration, Post-Disaster Social Int
Recommended Citation
Jones, Jacqueline, "Post-Katrina Student Resilience: Perspectives of Nunez Community College Students" (2010). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1137.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1137
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