Grounded Theory and Situated Inquiry

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(same as ED_LPA 8951 ). For qualitative researchers attempting to understand social processes, Grounded Theory (GT) offers a way of developing theory empirically, 'from the bottom up.' In fact, this is what most distinguishes GT from other methods. It is explicitly emergent. It does not test a hypothesis. It provides useful tools to learn about participants' understandings and experiences of a social issue, process, or phenomena and to discover and construct theory to account for the social processes being studied. In this course, we will consider the theoretical underpinnings and practices of classic and contemporary GT methodologies. Importantly, we will conduct research and a GT analysis of data. Credit Hour s : 3 Prerequisites: ESC_PS 8957 and ESC_PS 9620