Evaluation for a Caring Society

ISBN-13: 9781641131636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 260 str.

Merel Visse;Tineke Abma

Opis

This book highlights views on responsive, participatory and democratic approaches to evaluation from an ethos of care. It critically scrutinizes and discusses the invisibility of care in our contemporary Western societies and evaluation practices that aim to measure practices by external standards. Alternatively, the book proposes several foci for evaluators who work from a care perspective or wish to encourage a caring society. This is a society that sees evaluation and care as a continuously unfolding relational practice of moral-political learning contributing to life-sustaining webs.

Spis treści

• Foreword, Thomas Schwandt.
• Foreword, Guy Widdershoven.
• Acknowledgements.
• Introduction, Merel Visse and Tineke Abma.
• On the Photo-Story of the Carefreestate, Tineke Abma, Merel Visse, and Janine Schrijver.
• Part I: Theoretical Reflections On A Caring Society.
• Care, Competency, and Knowledge, Maurice Hamington.
• The Art of Understanding, Karin Dahlberg.
• Part II: Democratic Evaluation For A Caring Society.
• Democratic Evaluation and Care Ethics, Helen Simons and Jennifer C. Greene.
• Democratic Caring Evaluation for Refugee Children in Sweden, Anders Hanberger.
• Part III: Ethics And Evaluation For A Caring Society.
• Uncontrolled Evaluation: The Case of Telecare Innovations, Jeannette Pols.
• Evaluation for Moving Ethics in Health Care Services Towards Democratic Care: A Three Pillars Model: Education, Companionship, and Open Space, Helen Kohlen.
• Part IV: Responsive Evaluation For A Caring Society.
• Responding to Otherness: The Need for Experimental-Relational Spaces, Gustaaf Bos and Tineke Abma.
• Dialogue, Difference, and Care in Responsive Enactments of a World-Becoming, Melissa Freeman.
• Responsive Evaluation as a Way to Create Space for Sexual Diversity: A Case Example on Gay-Friendly Elderly Care, Hannah Leyerzapf, Merel Visse, Arwin de Beer, and Tineke Abma.
• Evaluation for a Caring Society: Toward New Imaginaries, Merel Visse and Tineke Abma.
• About the Contributors.