Grounded theory: A method for practitioner research by educational psychologists

@article{Sutcliffe2016GroundedTA,
  title={Grounded theory: A method for practitioner research by educational psychologists},
  author={Andrew Sutcliffe},
  journal={Educational and Child Psychology},
  year={2016},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:255901775}
}
From its origins during the qualitative revolution of the 1960s, grounded theory has become one of the most popular methodologies in use today. Glaser and Strauss’s (1967) book introducing the method represented a breakthrough, standing out for the systematic procedures it presented and how it countered the dominant view that quantitative research is the only valid approach to scientific inquiry.Grounded theory is a broad method, spanning contrasting ontologies but with nevertheless consistent… 
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