Growing Up: A Journey toward Theoretical Understanding

Autor/in	Dillow, Celia
Titel	Growing Up: A Journey toward Theoretical Understanding
Quelle	In: Qualitative Inquiry, 15 (2009) 8, S.1338-1351 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1077-8004
DOI	10.1177/1077800409339581
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Theories; Self Disclosure (Individuals); Ethnography; Teacher Aides; Teaching Assistants; Qualitative Research; Behavior; Human Body; Theory Practice Relationship; Story Telling; Personal Narratives; Epistemology; Authors; Writing (Composition); Emotional Response + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Gesellschaftstheorie; Ethnografie; Handreichung; Lehrerhilfe; Qualitative Forschung; Menschlicher Körper; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Erlebniserzählung; Erkenntnistheorie; Author; Autor; Autorin; Schreibübung; Emotionales Verhalten
Abstract	This article describes a struggle and a journey. It shows a struggle between the need to be scholarly and the desire to be evocative; it travels carefully along a path toward less certainty. The article discusses how the author, as a doctoral student, was aware of the need to address her innate resistance to "use" theory and how she struggled to assimilate this into her research project and text. The author says the journey toward this understanding was akin to a growth spurt--sometimes painful and always surprising. Here, the author uses a narrative style to explore approaches to theory, knowledge, and representation and to show this struggle in the context of her research into lived experience. The author records the way how she constructed her own theoretical framework and show the dawning realization that decisions about approach and method are indeed theoretically informed and supported. Finally, the article discusses how the author faced her theories about theories and discovered that the journey is important and that certainty is an elusive destination. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10