Visse Evaluation for a Caring Society

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-64113-165-0
Verlag: Information Age Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 261 Seiten

This book highlights views on responsive, participatory and democratic approaches to evaluation from an ethos of care. It critically scrutinizes and discusses the invisibility of care in our contemporary Western societies and evaluation practices that aim to measure practices by external standards. Alternatively, the book proposes several foci for evaluators who work from a care perspective or wish to encourage a caring society. This is a society that sees evaluation and care as a continuously unfolding relational practice of moralpolitical learning contributing to lifesustaining web.

‘At one level is the evaluator’s immediately responsive and interpersonal encounter with the personal troubles of social actors, most visible, as Mills originally pointed out, in an individual’s biography and in those social settings directly open to the individual’s lived experience. (...) At another level, the sociological and political level, the evaluator operates at what Mills called the arena of public issues where immediate personal troubles are seen not only as problems encountered by individuals but as the result of structural and political arrangements in society (...) evaluation for a caring society is thought to operate at both levels’ (Thomas A. Schwandt, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign).

‘The intricate relationship between evaluation and care is hardly addressed by evaluators or caregivers. This book fills a gap, as it focuses on the relationship between evaluation and care and provides a multitude of examples of evaluation as a caring practice (...) the book can serve as an antidote to the presentday haste in social practices, and contribute, in form and content, to developing an evaluation practice which may foster a caring society’ (Guy Widdershoven, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine and head of the Department of Medical Humanities at VU University Medical Center, VU University Amsterdam).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Visse, Merel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Series page;2
3;Evaluation for a Caring Society;4
4;Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data;5
5;Contents;6
6;Foreword (Schwandt);8
7;Foreword (Widdershoven);12
8;Acknowledgments;16
9;Introduction;18
10;The Photo-story of the Carefreestate;34
11;I am Zaitone;38
12;PART I: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON A CARING SOCIETY;42
12.1;CHAPTER 1: Care, Competency, and Knowledge;44
12.2;CHAPTER 2: The Art of Understanding;68
13;PART II: DEMOCRATIC EVALUATION FOR A CARING SOCIETY;98
13.1;CHAPTER 3: Democratic Evaluation and Care Ethics;100
13.2;CHAPTER 4: Democratic Caring Evaluation for Refugee Children in Sweden;122
14;PART III: ETHICS AND EVALUATION FOR A CARING SOCIETY;142
14.1;CHAPTER 5: Uncontrolled Evaluation;144
14.2;CHAPTER 6: Evaluation for Moving Ethics in Health Care Services Towards Democratic Care;160
15;PART IV: RESPONSIVE EVALUATION FOR A CARING SOCIETY;174
15.1;CHAPTER 7: Responding to Otherness;176
15.2;CHAPTER 8: Dialogue, Difference, and Care in Responsive Enactments of a World-Becoming;202
15.3;CHAPTER 9: Responsive Evaluation as a Way to Create Space for Sexual Diversity;224
15.4;CHAPTER 10: Evaluation for a Caring Society;242
16;ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS;260