Week 10

Grounded Theory

"Grounded theory enables you to generate a broad theory about your qualitative
central phenomenon "grounded" in the data.." This is what our professor said when discussing
grounded theory.

When I think about it, Ithink it is agreat way of addressing a porblem that has no previous
theories that address your problem. It is wonderful to generate a theory as you go along
studying your perticular situation. Grounded theory fits teh situation because it is the theory
is creted for that purpose.

I believ eit could be useful in my research in the sense that it will enable me to study a particular
porcess anx hel explain the actions of people. This kind of research helps the researcher by providing a
step by step systematic procedure for analyzing data.

I believe that grounded theory is really authentic to its situation or problem,
yet I also believe that it is very hard work and it may take an extra effort to have
apprehensive audiences believe in your study.
I guess this is my personal opinion for in class we discussed how thie type of research
exhibits the rigor qualitative researchers like to see in an educational study.
Yet, personally I believe it is harder to achieve that than what it seems.
It is great to be able toinnovate and create theory to problems that have no previous theory
to suport them.