In what ways, if at all, do you anticipate having to struggle with theory integration?ģ.
What assumptions do you hold about “knowledge”?Ģ.
The article illustrates how the author faced her theories about theories, discovering that the journey is important and that certainty is an elusive destination.ġ. To do this, she records the way she constructed her own theoretical framework, and explains the realization that decisions about approach and method are indeed theoretically informed and supported. The author uses a narrative style to explore approaches to theory, knowledge, and representation and to illustrate this struggle within the context of her research into lived experience. The author discusses how, as a doctoral student, she was aware of the need to address her innate resistance to use theory and how she struggled to assimilate this with her research project. This article describes a struggle and a journey between the need to be scholarly and the desire to be evocative. Growing Up: A Journey Toward Theoretical Understanding. What was most surprising to you as you read this article? Why?ĭillow, C. What insights have you derived from this article?ģ. What value do you expect to derive from using a reflective journal?Ģ.
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By interrogating the extent to which intersections of identity affect educational and career pathways, the authors use platica (dialogue) to theorize their doctoral experiences and examine how their challenges and successes manifest in their professional lives in academia.ġ. The authors, as sister scholars, retell their educational journeys through testimonio and analyze how their trenzas de identidades multiples (multiple strands of identity) now inform their work. These scholars successfully navigated various educational processes with the support of one another, their families, faculty, and their chosen discipline. This article focuses on multiple truths pertaining to doctoral education as expressed by three Latina doctoral recipients. Transitioning From Doctoral Study to the Academy: Theorizing Trenzas of Identity for Latina Sister Scholars. What goals will you set for yourself as you embark on the qualitative research process?Įspino, M., Muñoz, S., & Marquez Kiyama, J. What do you see as the most challenging aspect of writing a qualitative dissertation?ģ. What are some of the key issues raised in this play script?Ģ.
The play works with the metaphor of nomadic journeying across desert terrain toward the “Oasis” of membership of the academy as an image of the doctoral process.ġ. These issues include the institutional and individual impact of challenging what counts as original doctoral scholarship, the supervision relationship, and aspects of the experience of the completion of a doctorate. The article is written as a play script, which allows for different points of view to be offered and juxtaposed and for key issues to emerge and be explored. This article explores the institutional and individual struggles surrounding the submission of a jointly authored doctoral dissertation at a British university. Gatecrashing the Oasis? A Joint Doctoral Dissertation Play Qualitative Inquiry, 16(1), 21-28.