A research agenda for evaluation / edited by Peter Dahler-Larsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dahler-Larsen, Peter, Editor.

Contributor:

Dahler-Larsen, Peter, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar research agendas.

Elgar research agendas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edward Elgar Monographs 2021

Summary:

"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This unique Research Agenda addresses salient current issues in evaluation research, offering a broad perspective on the role of evaluation in society. International expert contributors explore how evaluation research is not only academic research engaged in practical problem-solving, but is also research that takes a critical look at this engagement, providing inspiration for reflexivity among evaluators. Drawing on a range of perspectives, including sociology, organization theory, psychoanalytic theory, and feminism, chapters analyse examples of how evaluation works in a number of arenas, such as education, research, and voluntary work. Taking a critical look at evaluation as a social phenomenon, this Research Agenda will be a useful resource for scholars and students of evaluation, public administration and management, and public policy. It will also be beneficial in helping practitioners and researchers to understand the major emerging issues within the field of evaluation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction to a research agenda for evaluation: Inspirational themes / Peter Dahler-Larsen

2. We do not start anything until everybody is there: An interview with Fileberto Reynaldo Lopez / Peter Dahler-Larsen

3. The thickening modern: Developing a research agenda beyond intensifying rationalism / Jaakko Kauko and Mika K. T. Pajunen

4. What if less were more? Exploring new pathways for the institutionalization of evaluation in international organizations / Estelle Raimondo

5. Fabricating "non-knowledge": International organizations and the numerical construction of an evaluative world / Sotiria Grek

6. Beyond programs: Toward a fuller picture of beneficiaries in nonprofit evaluation / Lehn M. Benjamin

7. Evaluation people and real people in home-school cooperation / Maria Ørskov Akselvoll and Peter Dahler-Larsen

8. Mapping the ecology of knowledge in collaborative practice: A look toward future possibilities / Jill Anne Chouinard

9. Is feminist policy evaluation possible? Methodological and theoretical considerations / Emily St. Denny

10. Designing indicators for opening up evaluation: Insights from research assessment / Ismael Ràfols and Andy Stirling

11. Victims or accomplices? Our strange appetite for evaluation / Bénédicte Vidaillet

12. Rhetorical power in evaluations: Tracing the construction of value-measurement links in debates on societal impact / Felicitas Hesselmann and Cornelia Schendzielorz

13. The future of evaluation: Notes for the engaged evaluation researcher / Peter Dahler-Larsen

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83910-108-3

OCLC:

1259322999