A Quick Guide to Speed-Dating Theorists through Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Viewing Data Across Multiple Perspectives

Authors

  • Elsa Lenz Kothe The University of British Columbia
  • Marc Higgins The University of British Columbia
  • Sam Stiegler The University of British Columbia
  • Marie-France Berard The University of British Columbia
  • Brooke Madden The University of British Columbia

Keywords:

reading groups, qualitative methodology, poststructuralism, material feminisms

Abstract

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 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 a creatively flirty medium: dating service profiles. Like the profiles, the productivity of using Thinking with Theory as a guide for promiscuous theoretical thinking, researching, and writing is not in its prescription but rather in the emergence of different productions of knowledge that occur relationally.

Author Biographies

  • Elsa Lenz Kothe, The University of British Columbia
    Curriculum Studies
  • Marc Higgins, The University of British Columbia
    Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education
  • Sam Stiegler, The University of British Columbia
    Curriculum Studies
  • Marie-France Berard, The University of British Columbia
    Curriculum Studies
  • Brooke Madden, The University of British Columbia
    Curriculum Studies

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Published

2015-05-08

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Book Review/Critique de livre

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