Evaluative Research Methods: Managing the Complexities of Judgement in the Field

ISBN-13: 9781681236889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 298 str.

Saville Kushner

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• Acknowledgements.
• Outline of the Book.
• PART I: INTRODUCTIONS
• CHAPTER 1: What is Evaluative Research and How Are You Positioned Within It?
• CHAPTER 2: Evaluative Enquiry and Democracy: Where It Came From and Where It Might Go.
• CHAPTER 3: Social Change and Evaluative Research.
• CHAPTER 4: Theorizing, Contingency, and Evaluative Cognition: Conceptual Tools to Help You Read the Book.
• PART II: THE CRAFT OF EVALUATIVE RESEARCH
• CHAPTER 5: The ‘Self’ and the ‘Person’: Democratic Individualism.
• CHAPTER 6: Evaluative Interviewing.
• CHAPTER 7: Observation-Based Interviewing, Triangulation and the Redistribution of Power.
• CHAPTER 8: On Bullfighting, the Fragile Self, and an Introduction to Evaluative Case Study.
• CHAPTER 9: Analyzing Organization as an Evaluative Case.
• CHAPTER 10: Writing Democratically, and Finding Your Own Voice.
• PART III: THE POLITICS OF EVALUATIVE RESEARCH: DANGERS IN THE FIELD
• CHAPTER 11: Quieting Reform: When Evaluative Research Can Be Dangerous, with Robert Stake and Acacia Cochise.
• CHAPTER 12: Politics and Negotiation in Evaluative Enquiry.
• CHAPTER 13: Evaluation Inside the Political System, With Barry Kushner.
• CHAPTER 14: Radical Manifestos for Evaluative Research.
• PART IV: CRITIQUES OF CURRENTLY POPULAR EVALUATION PRACTICES, THE WAY FORWARD
• CHAPTER 15: Democracy, Theory, and Logic in Evaluative Research: Beware of Rationalism.
• CHAPTER 16: Democracy and Method in International Development Evaluation.
• CHAPTER 17: Arriving Backwards: Evaluative Enquiry, Innovation, and Democracy.
• References.