Evaluation Cultures: Sense-Making in Complex Times, Jean-Claude Barbier

Автор: Schwandt Thomas
Название: Evaluation Foundations Revisited: Cultivating a Life of the Mind for Practice
ISBN: 0804786550 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804786553
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Evaluation examines policies and programs across every arena of human endeavor, from efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS to programs that drive national science policy. Relying on a vast array of methods, from qualitative interviewing to econometrics, it is a "transdiscipline," as opposed to a formal area of academic study. Accounting for these challenges, Evaluation Foundations Revisited offers an introduction for those seeking to better understand evaluation as a professional field. While the acquisition of methods and methodologies to meet the needs of certain projects is important, the foundation of evaluative practice rests on understanding complex issues to balance. Evaluation Foundations Revisited is an invitation to examine the intellectual, practical, and philosophical nexus that lies at the heart of evaluation.
Thomas A. Schwandt shows how to critically engage with the assumptions that underlie how evaluators define and position their work, as well as how they argue for the usefulness of evaluation in society. He looks at issues such as the role of theory, how notions of value and valuing are understood, how evidence is used, how evaluation is related to politics, and what comprises scientific integrity. By coming to better understand the foundations of evaluation, readers will develop what Schwandt terms "a life of the mind of practice," which enables evaluators to draw on a more holistic view to develop reasoned arguments and well fitted techniques.

Автор: Strauss
Название: Making Sense of Public Opinion
ISBN: 1107688698 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107688698
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Claudia Strauss proposes that Americans form views on immigration and social welfare programs from conventional ways of speaking rather than from liberal or conservative ideologies. This book explains what conventional discourses are, how to study them and why they are fundamental elements of public opinion and political culture.

Автор: Hopson Rodney, Cram Fiona
Название: Tackling Wicked Problems in Complex Ecologies: The Role of Evaluation
ISBN: 1503600718 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503600713
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Tackling Wicked Problems in Complex Ecologies is a call to action, focusing on the role that evaluators can play in addressing social and economic problems. Evaluation extends beyond theories and methods, encompassing a range of proven approaches for addressing ecological complexities that drive inequities around the globe.

Bringing together leading thinkers and problem-solvers, this collection traverses the range of contexts at the frontiers of the field—from inadequate food supply and housing to unemployment and poverty. Editors Rodney Hopson and Fiona Cram demonstrate the effects of an engaged approach to evaluation, in which three considerations take center stage: its relevance, the relationships it engenders, and the responsibilities it requires. This is a handbook for tackling the social and economic problems of the twenty-first century which, though wicked, are amenable to the tools of the trade.

Автор: Velure Roholt Ross, Baizerman Michael
Название: Evaluating Civic Youth Work: Illustrative Evaluation Designs and Methodologies for Complex Youth Program Evaluations
ISBN: 0190883839 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190883836
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Most youth civic engagement evaluation studies fail to reach beyond specific audiences, thereby hindering the diffusion of evaluation practice wisdom around effective methods to evaluate complex social innovations. This book therefore provides multiple case studies of youth civic engagement evaluation designs and straightforward guidance for designing youth civic engagement evaluations.

Название: Dominican Cultures: The Making of a Caribbean Society
ISBN: 1558764356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781558764354
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: While the Spanish brought their religion, language, values, and traditions to the island to form the cornerstone of the Dominican culture, a later influx of Germans, Irish, Italians, and Sephardic Jews from the Dutch Caribbean and Lebanon added further variety. This book acknowledges creolization as the dominant feature of Dominican culture.

Автор: John Hughson
Название: The Making of Sporting Cultures
ISBN: 0415675855 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415675857
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The Making of Sporting Cultures develops a cultural historical approach to the study of sport, allowing for an appreciation of how sporting cultures are actively made by people as social agents and how sports become located within the `common culture` of different nations across time.

Автор: Chambliss Daniel F., Schutt Russell K.
Название: Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation
ISBN: 1483380610 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781483380612
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: The latest edition of this popular, undergraduate introduction to social research for students who need to understand methodologies and their results. A balanced treatment of qualitative and quantitative methods, with a less formal style than most methodology textbooks.

Автор: DeNora Tia
Название: Making Sense of Reality
ISBN: 1446202003 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781446202005
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: An accomplished and thought provoking study of everyday `reality` and how we represent, perceive and experience it. With examples throughout, it offers readers an exciting new way of understanding identity, perception and culture.

Автор: Rupa Huq
Название: Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture
ISBN: 1780932235 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780932231
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The majority of us live in suburbia, yet there is no formal definition of the concept. By examining novels, cinema, popular music and television in the US and UK, this book explores how notions of suburbia have developed in our collective imagination.

Автор: Rupa Huq
Название: Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture
ISBN: 1780932243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780932248
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The majority of us live in suburbia, yet there is no formal definition of the concept. By examining novels, cinema, popular music and television in the US and UK, this book explores how notions of suburbia have developed in our collective imagination.