eBook - ePub

Building in Research and Evaluation

Name: Building in Research and Evaluation
ISBN: 9781000256406

Human inquiry for living systems

Yoland Wadsworth,

360 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Building in Research and Evaluation

Human inquiry for living systems

Yoland Wadsworth,

About this book

Albert Einstein said we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. If we don't have the kinds of health and human services or even the kinds of lives, communities and organisations we want, then we need to think differently.

Yoland Wadsworth offers an inspired insight and radically new proposition: that the act of our 'inquiring', of researching and evaluating together, is the way by which every living organism and all collective human life goes about continuously achieving the conditions for life.

Building in Research and Evaluation explores this new approach for bringing about both wanted change and stability. By inquiring around 'whole cycles' of acting, observing, questioning, feeling, reflecting, thinking, planning and acting again, Yoland identifies how new life might be brought to what we do.

'Sound and persuasive, insightful, important and inviting. A great contribution' - Michael Quinn Patton, author of the best-selling book, Utilization-Focused Evaluation

'Brilliant. I'm not aware of any other book of this nature. The examples are impressive' - Linette Hawkins, social work educator

'I remain critical of 'systems' models and biological analogies for organisational processes, but this work is unquestionably original and in major ways innovative' - Raewyn Connell, sociology professor

'Highly original. an ambitious integration of concepts. Credible and useful. Grounded in pioneering empirical research' - Danny Burns, professor of organisational learning

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