Searching for a way to read, think, research, and write with complex theory, the authors of this book review came together for a peer-led doctoral reading group.Given our disparate disciplinary commitments, as well as our uncertainty as to how to embark on such a task, our here group coalesced around the approach offered by Alecia Y.Jackson and Lisa A.
Mazzei in Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Viewing Data Across Multiple Perspectives.Jackson and Mazzei implicitly propose the format of speed-dating theorists within their book, which we found ideal for our theoretically promiscuous reading group.We offer a window into our speed-dating experiences through ucsb gaucho blue a creatively flirty medium: dating service profiles.
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