
The Role of Culture and Cultural Context in Evaluation
A Mandate for Inclusion, the Discovery of Truth and Understanding
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The Role of Culture and Cultural Context in Evaluation
A Mandate for Inclusion, the Discovery of Truth and Understanding
About this book
This volume seeks to address select questions drawn from the matrix of the complex issues related to culturally responsive evaluation. We ask, should evaluation be culturally responsive? Is the field heading in the right direction in its attempt to become more culturally responsive? We ask, what is culturally responsive evaluation today and what might it become tomorrow?
This edited volume does not promise to deliver answers to all, most, or even many of the complex answers facing the evaluation community regarding the role of culture and cultural context in evaluative theory and practice. This is not a scientific undertaking. We are not ready for concerns with prediction, explanation or control. We are ready for serious explorations, however. Even if the evaluation community cannot articulate the necessary and sufficient conditions for a culturally relevant evaluation it does know several of the desiderata. Our concern and the direction of this volume has been reflections of evaluation theory, history, and practice within the context of culture with illustrative examples.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contributing Authors
- Contents
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Chapte 2 - Evaluators as Stewards of the Public Good
- Chapter 3 - Through a Cultural Lens
- Chapter 4 - Persuasive Language, Responsive Design
- Chapter 5 - Promoting Culturally Reliable and Valid Evaulation Practice
- Chapter 6 - An Untold Story in Evaluation Roots
- Chapter 7 - Learning to Play Scholarly Jazz
- Chapter 8 - The Penal Project
- Chapter 9 - It Starts with a Machete
- Chapter 10 - Using Theory-Driven Evaluation with Underserved Communities
- Chapter 11 - Cultural Reflactions Stemming from the Evaluation of an Undergraduate Research Program
- Chapter 12 - The Use of Contextually Relevant Evaluation Practices with Programs Designed to Increase Participation of Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathatics (STEM) Education