Author : Jill Anne Chouinard
Release : 2019-09-27
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 522/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Culturally Responsive Approaches to Evaluation by : Jill Anne Chouinard
Download or read book Culturally Responsive Approaches to Evaluation written by Jill Anne Chouinard. This book was released on 2019-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluators have always worked in diverse communities, and the programs they evaluate are designed to address often intractable socio-political and economic issues. Evaluations that explicitly aim to be more responsive to culture and cultural context are, however, a more recent phenomenon. In this book, Jill Anne Chouinard and Fiona Cram utilize a conceptual framework that foregrounds culture in social inquiry, and then uses that framework to analyze empirical studies across three distinct cultural domains of evaluation practice (Western, Indigenous and international development). Culturally Responsive Approaches to Evaluation provide a comparative analysis of these studies and discuss lessons drawn from them in order to help evaluators extend their current thinking and practice. They conclude with an agenda for future research.