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concepts for further exploration, the on-going data collection aims to form a ‘core’
category explaining the field under exploration. Their review of eight speech and
language therapy studies using grounded theory found that it is a suitable qualitative
methodology within the field because of the focus it provides for
“the underlying processes of human action and interaction [and] its emphasis
on the ‘core concern’ of participants” (p. 107).
3.3.5. Constructivist Grounded Theory
Many innovations of grounded theory have emerged over the years and there is a clear
lineage of development (Morse, 2009), one of which is known as constructivist
grounded theory developed by Kathy Charmaz (2006). Charmaz (2009) describes
how she developed the symbolic interactionism of Glaser and Strauss’ grounded
theory to incorporate a constructivist perspective. She outlines how her contemporary
revision
“assumes a relativist epistemology, sees knowledge as socially produced,
acknowledges multiple standpoints of both the research participants and the
grounded theorist, and takes a reflexive stance” (p. 129)
and opens the approach to other
“theoretical starting points [such as] feminist theory, post structuralism,
Marxist theory” (p.134) .
Within the current research study a constructivist grounded theory approach
(Charmaz, 2000 2006, 2008, 2009) will be followed and Table 2 outlines the rationale
for this decision.
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