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The Place of Theory in my Research: Constructing and negotiating the “dialectical scaffold” Journal entry: Nov 2009

Having resisted the pressure from my supervisors to select relevant and appropriate theoretical frameworks for my research because I felt that this would prevent my data (and my young women) from speaking for themselves and, in a sense, predetermine the analysis and findings of my study, I have come to the realization that theoretical frameworks of one sort or another permeate, and have influenced, every stage of my mahi – my work – and therefore my research project, its questions and methodological approaches, and ultimately its analyses and conclusions.