From the Editor

Abstract

This issue focuses specifically on the adventure of learning and doing that first GT study – the trepidation, challenge, inevitable confusion, eureka excitement and energizing satisfaction that each of us has experienced as a novice GT researcher. Barney Glaser holds that GT is best done in the hands of the novice researcher and has written extensively on the novice experience. In this issue, we are pleased to reprint Chapter 5 of The GT Perspective II: Description’s Remodeling of Grounded Theory Methodology (Glaser, 2003, pp.61-79) in which he expounds his confidence in the novice advantage with its quest for relevance, openness to learning, ability to tolerate not knowing and ability to trust in the method’s time-tested and product-proven outcomes.