Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Appendices, Figures, Tables
About the Authors
Volume Editors' Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 • Introduction
Overall Background to Book
Social Inquiry as a Cultural Product
This Book
Chapter 2 • A Conceptual Framework for Inquiry
Defining Culture
Dimensions of Culture and Cultural Context
Chapter 3 • Methodology and Descriptive Overview of Selected Studies
Description of Studies
Sample Characteristics
Strategy for Analysis
Limitations
Chapter 4 • The Indigenous Context
Overview of Chapter
Description of Sample
Review and Integration of Selected Studies
Critical Discussion and Implications for Practice
Chapter Summary
Extending Inquiry
Chapter 5 • The Western/North American Context
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
Chapter 6 • The International Development Context
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
Chapter 7 • A Discussion of the Conceptual Framework Across Domains of Practice
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
