Keywords
grounded theory; education research; educational leadership; qualitative
Abstract
This study unpacks converging and diverging ideas and definitions surrounding Grounded Theory, Classical Grounded Theory, and Glaserian / Straussian Grounded Theory. This qualitative research cleverly accomplishes the task in a manner that becomes useful for qualitative researchers to use Grounded Theory as a practical venue for a framework for education research. Many researchers’ definitions portray Grounded Theory as an ethnographic approach of a systematic qualitative research methodology involving the creation of theory from observation data. Even though Grounded Theory is often used synonymously with qualitative research, some researchers argue these are distinctly different (Grounded Theory Institute, 2011). Resulting theory attempts to explain categories, properties, and the relationships of a body of knowledge that is grounded in the data (Calloway & Knapp, 1995).
Date Created
January 2012
STARS Citation
Eadens, Daniel, "Unpacking grounded theory: A venue for education research" (2012). EGS Content. 231.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/egs_content/231
https://works.bepress.com/daniel-eadens/31/download/
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