PREFACE
1. Setting the Stage - Vincent A. Anfara, Jr. and Norma T. Mertz
2. Seeking Understanding of School Culture: Using Theory as a Framework for Observation and Analysys - Joyce L. Henstrand
3. Struggling With Theory: A Beginning Scholar¿s Experience with Mazzoni¿s Area Models - Frances C. Fowler
4. Black Feminist Thought and Examining the Experiences of Black Graduate Women in the Academy - Lori Patton Davis, Nadrea Njoku and Juhanna Rogers
5. Transformational Learning and HIV-Positive Young Adults - Sharan B. Merriam
6. Using Multiple Theoretical Frameworks to Study Organizational Change and Identity - Michael R. Mills and Pamela J. Bettis
7. Using "Othermothering" to Study Administrative Worklife at Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Terrell L. Strayhorn
8. Mary Douglas¿s Typology of Grid and Group - Edward L. Harris
9. Adapting Bourdieüs Field Theory to Explain Decision-Making Process in Educational Policy - Carol A. Mutch
10. A Look Through the Kubler-Ross Theoretical Lens - Kerri S. Kearney and Adrienne E. Hyle
11. Examining the Intersection of Race, Gender and Environment Using Bronfenbrenner¿s Bioecological Systems Theory of Human Development - R. Darrell Peterson
12. Lagniappe: Theoretical Frameworks in Brief - Various
13. Closing the Loop - Norma T. Mertz and Vincent A. Anfara, Jr.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS