Grounded theory online seminars

Grounded Theory Onlin runs serminars "Planning a Grounded Theory study"; it helps researchers to avoid early and common errors.

Focus on discuss:
  • What is Grounded Theory?
  • Is this the right method for your study?
  • Is the substantive area ok?
  • Is the way that you will collect/are collecting your data consistent with Grounded Theory? Can it be improved?
Date:
Saturday 8 October 0500 GMT, Sydney 1600 EDT, Auckland 1800 NZDT
Saturday 8 October 1400 GMT New York 1000EDT, San Francisco 0700PDT

Friday 4 November 2000 GMT,

Saturday 5 November Sydney 0700 EDT, Auckland 0900 NZST
Saturday 5 November 1400 GMT New York 1000EDT, San Francisco 0700PDT

Saturday 3 December 0600 GMT, Sydney 1700 EST, Auckland 1900 NZDT
Saturday 3 December 1500 GMT New York 1000EST, San Francisco 0800PST

Theory in qualitative educational research

When I started to learn "grounded theory" methodology. I asked myself "What is a theory?" as "theory" for me was a big thing and I felt it's extremely tough to create a theory... I digged the answer... It's always good to make it clear what your understanding about a term or a concept.

Theory in qualitative educational research provided by the British Educational Research Association (bera) raises some issues relating to theory as a term, a concept and an agent in educational research.

Grounded theory in conference papers - Computer Science (2010)

Wolfswinkel, J., et al. (2010). "Reflecting on E-Recruiting Research Using Grounded Theory". Presented at: 18th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2010), University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa. 6-9 June 2010.

the 8th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

The Eighth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2012 will offer scholars the opportunity to debate these issues, to foreground qualitative inquiry as a shared, global endeavor.

The morning workshop: Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research will present a new analytics that refuses mechanistic coding and reducing data to themes in traditional qualitative data analysis. 

Date: May 16-19, 2012
Avenue: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign