| Description |
xii, 224 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Counterpoints ; v. 211 |
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Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 211
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| Contents |
1. Understandings of Evaluation Practice -- 2. Better Living Through Evaluation? -- 3. Recapturing Moral Discourse in Evaluation - Revisited -- 4. Evaluation as Practical Hermeneutics -- 5. On Understanding Understanding -- 6. Criteria or Human Judgment? -- 7. Promises and Perils of the Evaluator as Strong Poet -- 8. Reading the Landscape of Values in Evaluation -- 9. Dialogue and the Moral Point of View -- 10. Contingency, Power, and Choice: Reflections on Postmodernist Thinking in Evaluation -- 11. Notes on Being an Evaluator |
| Summary |
"Evolution Practice Reconsidered encourages a new way of thinking about the activity of judging the merit, worth, or significance of some human action, such as a policy, program, or project. Yet, it is not about another model or methodology for evolution. Taken collectively, the ideas explored here suggest a way of reasoning about and engaging in evaluation that is not bound either to the characterization of evaluation as applied social science or to efforts to foster the development of evaluation as a professional practice of experts. Rather, the book explores evaluation as practical hermeneutics. Conceived in this way, evaluation is about acquiring an action-oriented self-understanding that is continuous with our ordinary ways of thinking and action in everyday life."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
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| LC no. |
2001042728 |
| ISBN |
0820457051 paperback alkaline paper |
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VOLUME 211 |
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