Jennifer L. Ekert

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jennifer L. Ekert is involved.

Article

Ekert, Jennifer L. 2001 The Power and Vulnerability of a Dream Deferred: High-achieving Minority Adolescent Girls’ Narratives of Success Narrative Inquiry 11:2, pp. 257–275 | Article

This study chronicles the “ordinary success” of 20 highly motivated, working-class minority adolescent girls. Within achievement motivation literature, success generally has been conceived as measurable performance and studied with quantitative methods. The current study instead uses narrative… read more