Content: 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 Bourdieu's 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