In addition to clearly laid down procedures that grounded theory provides for this qualitative study, it is also a methodology that enables researchers to use the data to develop theory rather than to test it (Rennie, 1998). It focuses on inductive strategies of generating theory in comparison to other theoretical perspectives which emphasise theory developed deductively (Patton, 2002). Further explanation by Wiersma and Jurs (2005) is that the theory is grounded in the data, that is, the theory or theories emerge from the data, and therefore there are no
preconceived ideas about what the theory will be. Therefore, I found the development of theory inductively attractive and appropriate for my study which investigated participants’ lived experience in senior secondary schools in Botswana, a topic that has not been extensively explored.