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September, 2019 | SAGE Publications, Inc

Culturally Responsive Approaches to Evaluation

Empirical Implications for Theory and Practice


Jill Anne Chouinard - The University of North Carolina - Greensboro, USA
Fiona Cram - Katoa Ltd.
232 pages | September, 2019 | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Evaluators have always worked in diverse communities, and the programs they evaluate are designed to address often intractable socio-political and economic issues. Evaluations that explicitly aim to be more responsive to culture and cultural context are, however, a more recent phenomenon. In this book, Jill Anne Chouinard and Fiona Cram utilize a conceptual framework that foregrounds culture in social inquiry, and then uses that framework to analyze empirical studies across three distinct cultural domains of evaluation practice (Western, Indigenous and international development). Culturally Responsive Approaches to Evaluation provide a comparative analysis of these studies and discuss lessons drawn from them in order to help evaluators extend their current thinking and practice. They conclude with an agenda for future research.

List of Appendices, Figures, Tables
About the Authors
Volume Editors’ Introduction
Acknowledgments

Overall Background to Book
Social Inquiry as a Cultural Product
This Book

Defining Culture
Dimensions of Culture and Cultural Context

Description of Studies
Sample Characteristics
Strategy for Analysis
Limitations

Overview of Chapter
Description of Sample
Review and Integration of Selected Studies
Critical Discussion and Implications for Practice
Chapter Summary
Extending Inquiry

Overview of Chapter
Description of Sample
Review and Integration of Selected Studies
Discussion and Implications
Critical Discussion and Implications for Practice
Chapter Summary
Extending Inquiry

Overview of the Chapter
The International Development Context in Evaluation
Description of Sample
Review and Integration of Selected Studies
Critical Discussion and Implications for Practice
Chapter Summary
Extending Inquiry

The Epistemological Dimension of Cultural Practice
The Ecological Dimension of Cultural Practice
The Methodological Dimension of Cultural Practice
The Political Dimension of Cultural Practice
The Personal Dimension of Cultural Practice
The Relational Dimension of Cultural Practice
The Institutional Dimension of Cultural Practice
The Axiological Dimension of Cultural Practice
The Ontological Dimension of Cultural Practice
Concluding Remarks
Chapter 8 • Concluding Thoughts
References
Appendices
Index