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Description
Contents
An exploration of evaluator role and identity. The areas addressed include: evaluation in an organizational world; evaluation as responsibility, conscience and conviction; the evaluator's role in the transformative context; hidden images of self; and evaluation in dystopian times.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. Three Frameworks for Considering Evaluator Role; Jean A. King and Laurie Stevahn.
Chapter 2. Toward Better Understanding of Alternative Evaluator Roles; Melvin M. Mark.
Chapter 3. Making (More) Room at the Evaluation Table for Ethnography: Contributions to the Responsive Constructivist Generation; Rodney K. Hopson.
Chapter 4. Evaluation in an Organizational World; Peter Dahler-Larsen.
Chapter 5. Evaluation as Responsibility, Conscience, and Conviction; Christina Segerholm.
Chapter 6. The Evaluator's Role in the Transformative Context; Donna M. Mertens.
Chapter 7. Hidden Images of Self; Tineke A. Abma.
Chapter 8. Performing Evaluation; Norman K. Denzin.
Chapter 9. Future Imperfect: Evaluation in Dystopian Times; Ian Stronach, Rob Halsall, and Dave Hustler.
Chapter 10. Traversing the Terrain of Role, Identity, and Self; Thomas A. Schwandt.