Evaluation Practice Reconsidered

Thomas A. Schwandt

ISBN 10: 0820457051 / ISBN 13: 9780820457055

Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Sep 2002, 2002

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Evaluation 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 evaluation. 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 that is not bound either to the characterization 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 actions in everyday life. 226 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Evaluation Practice Reconsidered
• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers Sep 2002
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0820457051
• ISBN-13: 9780820457055
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 233B x 161 H x 14 T Millimeter Breite: 233 mm, Höhe: 161 mm, Tiefe: 14 mm
• Gewicht: 378 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas A. Schwandt is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he also holds an appointment in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.