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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.
Volume:
4
Series:
Evaluation in Practice Series
Evaluation in Practice Series
October 2019 | 232 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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
Chapter 1 • Introduction
Chapter 2 • A Conceptual Framework for Inquiry
Chapter 3 • Methodology and Descriptive Overview of Selected Studies
Chapter 4 • The Indigenous Context
Chapter 5 • The Western/North American Context
Chapter 6 • The International Development Context
Chapter 7 • A Discussion of the Conceptual Framework Across Domains of Practice
Chapter 8 • Concluding Thoughts
References
Appendices
Index
