Disrupting Program Evaluation and Mixed Methods Research for a More Just Society

The Contributions of Jennifer C. Greene

Jori N. Hall, Ayesha Boyce, Rodney Hopson, Jori N. Hall, Ayesha Boyce, Rodney Hopson

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9798887301044
  9798887301051
• eBook ISBN:
  9798887301068
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice
• Index: Biological Sciences

While women have influenced the fields of program evaluation and mixed methods research, their contributions are rarely acknowledged. In this edited volume, we recognize the contributions Jennifer C. Greene made to evaluation and mixed methods, focusing on how she disrupted traditional ways methods are conceptualized and implemented. We aim to provide a range of perspectives on how Greene disrupted social science theory, methodology, and training through her commitment to the values of democracy, diversity, and dialogue. Accordingly, the volume makes explicit how Greene democratized social science inquiry and training by emphasizing inclusive, culturally responsive, and educative theories, methods, and pedagogical practices. Second, it clarifies how her commitment to diversity supported scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and cultures (within and beyond the United States) and validated often ignored perspectives on phenomena or experiences. And third, it showcases how her commitment to dialogue opened spaces for non-traditional methodological approaches that engage, communicate, and disseminate program evaluation and mixed methods work. Taken together, the first-hand accounts presented in this volume offer a historical perspective and practical guidance on program evaluation and mixed methods conceptualization, implementation, and training.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Advance Praise
• Series page
• Disrupting Program Evaluation and Mixed Methods Research for a More Just Society
• Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1: The Value Commitments of Jennifer C. Greene
• CHAPTER 2: Situating Jennifer C. Greene’s Evaluation Legacy in the Illinois School of Evaluation
• CHAPTER 3: From Multiple Methods to Mixed Methods
• CHAPTER 4: The Interpretivist-Humanist Evaluator
• SECTION I: DEMOCRATIZING INQUIRY: FOSTERING INCLUSION, COLLABORATION, AND LEARNING
• CHAPTER 5: Democratic Ideals in Research and Evaluation
• CHAPTER 6: Visiting and Listening Well
• CHAPTER 7: Good Start
• CHAPTER 8: Evaluator’s Commitment to Epistemic Justice and the Need of Ethics Work
• SECTION II: DIVERSIFYING SOCIAL SCIENCE INQUIRY NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY THROUGH PEDAGOGY AND MENTORSHIP
• CHAPTER 9: Answering the Call
• CHAPTER 10: Our Evaluation Education With JCG
• CHAPTER 11: Crossing the Threshold
• CHAPTER 12: In Pursuit of Democratic Values
• SECTION III: MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE: DISPOSITIONS, IMPOSITIONS, AND ASSUMPTIONS MATTER
• CHAPTER 13: Micro-Level Processes of Dialogue for Transformative Evaluation Practice and a Just Society
• CHAPTER 14: Exploring the Linguistic Implications of Dialogue in Evaluation
• CHAPTER 15: Holding Space for Exploration, Reflection, and Growth
• SECTION IV: THE LAST WORD
• CHAPTER 16: Interview With Jennifer C. Greene
• ABOUT THE EDITORS
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS