Building in Research and Evaluation : Human inquiry for living systems

Wadsworth, Yoland

Routledge（2021/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 360 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367717605
• DDC分類 300.72

Full Description

Albert Einstein said we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. If we don't have the kinds of health and human services or even the kinds of lives, communities and organisations we want, then we need to think differently.

Yoland Wadsworth offers an inspired insight and radically new proposition: that the act of our 'inquiring', of researching and evaluating together, is the way by which every living organism and all collective human life goes about continuously achieving the conditions for life.

Building in Research and Evaluation explores this new approach for bringing about both wanted change and stability. By inquiring around 'whole cycles' of acting, observing, questioning, feeling, reflecting, thinking, planning and acting again, Yoland identifies how new life might be brought to what we do.

Contents

FOREWORD

PREFACE

DEDICATION

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PROLOGUE

1. SOME INTRODUCTORY FOUNDATIONS FOR BUILDING ON

2. LIVING SYSTEMS

3. CYCLES OF RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND INQUIRY FOR LIFE

4. MORE (TRULY) LIVING HUMAN SERVICES

5. EXAMPLES OF BUILDING IN INQUIRY FOR LIVING HUMAN SERVICE SYSTEMS

6. CONCLUDING WORDS

APPENDICES

Appendix 1. How to deliver negative evaluation results constructively

Appendix 2. Key drivers of organisational excellence

Appendix 3. What s the Myers Briggs indicator got to do with it?

Appendix 4. An example of use of the sequence of whole cycle research questions: in health

promotion practice

Appendix 5. Other integral theories of change

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

REFERENCES

INDEX