Description: "Grounded theory (GT) is a research methodology and various procedures designed to systematically generate a theory grounded in data or results. Inaugurated at the end of the 1960s, thanks to its methodological rigour as well as its flexibility, in the last two decades GT has become one of the most widely used qualitative research methods across a wide range of subject areas and in the disciplines of nursing, health sciences, computer science, marketing, social psychology and education among others. Today, GT cannot be considered a uniform approach and this book introduces many approaches without belonging to anyone of them, offering a range of case studies showing how GT has been applied in various contexts. Using GT in research is an adventurous journey: one can only understand 'what' GT is by doing it"--
Brief description: Massimiliano Tarozzi is UNESCO Chair in Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education and Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he is Founding Director of the International Research Centre on Global Citizenship Education. He is co-author, with Carlos Alberto Torres, of Global Citizenship Education and the Crises of Multiculturalism (2016) and Grounded Theory (2020), both published by Bloomsbury.
Review Quotes:
"Tarozzi's encyclopedic knowledge of grounded theory makes this a great book for both methodologists interested in studying the evolution of this approach as well as for students interested in reading a clear description of one way to conduct studies using grounded theory. By showing how he analyzed the data in his own study of how families manage children's television watching, Tarozzi shows the elegant complexities of using grounded theory to systematically analyze data and build theory from the ground up." --Karin Olson, Professor and Interim Coordinator, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, Canada
"Gives a brief and very personal introduction to Grounded Theory which makes it a very valuable resource for the novice students interested in using Grounded Theory for their own research. " --Uwe Flick, Professor, Professor of Qualitative Research, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany