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Compare and Contrast of Grounded Theory and KJ Method

@inproceedings{Shimura2010CompareAC,
  title={Compare and Contrast of Grounded Theory and KJ Method},
  author={Kenichiro Shimura},
  year={2010}
}

• K. Shimura
• Published 2010
• Education

The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast grounded theory and KJ (Kawakita method. Many Japanese researchers confuse the two methods, and mix them together. For example, a graduate student in education advises another member in an online forum on Internet that grounded theory approach is corresponds to KJ method (Murayama, 2001). To clarify the difference is critical for honoring the scholarship of both originators. The purpose of social or educational research is to describe numerically describe the mass, to unknown phenomena, to develop theory. To verify hypothesis and to numerically describe the mass, method is used, and to describe particular situations, develop theory, qualitative research method is widely used. only qualitative research (Glaser, 1992), many researchers put it into the category. to research