Introduction -- Seeking understanding of school culture : using theory as a framework for observation and analysis / Joyce L. Henstrand -- Transformational learning and HIV-positive young adults / Sharan B. Merriam -- Struggling with theory : a beginning scholar's experience with Mazzoni's arena models / Frances C. Fowler -- Liminality and the study of a changing academic landscape / Pamela J. Bettis and Michael R. Mills -- Organizational identity and identification during a departmental reorganization / Michael R. Mills and Pamela J. Bettis -- Chaos and complexity as a framework for understanding social workers at mid-life / Irene E. Karpiak -- A look through the Kubler-Ross theoretical lens / Kerri S. Kearney and Adrienne E. Hyle -- Mary Douglas's typology of grid and group / Edward L. Harris -- Adapting Bourdieu's field theory to explain decision making processes in educational policy / Carol A. Mutch -- On politics and theory : using an explicitly activist theory to frame educational research / Catherine A. Lugg -- Conclusion
Summary
Providing practical coverage of theory & its role in qualitative research, this book offers a concise definition of what a theoretical framework is & how one goes about finding one
