ABSTRACT
In describing the process of thinking with theory, Jackson and Mazzei (2012) stated that the analytical approach was “a process to diffract, rather than foreclose, thought” (p. 5). They further stated that to think with theory was “meant to be irruptive in an opening of ways of thinking and meaning. . . . [A way] to shake us out of the complacency of seeing/hearing/ thinking as we always have, or might have, or will have” (p. 14). Although Jackson and Mazzei focused on pushing data to their analytical limits, the process of thinking with theory has an impact in terms of how one thinks about the data that are stretched, (re)presented with multiple meanings, and (re)constituted from divergent vantage points. As they suggest, the effect of thinking with theory is to see/hear/think about data in unconventional, untraditional, and unconstrained ways.
