Evaluation for a caring society

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....

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Other Authors Visse, Merel, 1972- (Editor), Abma, T. A. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2018]
SeriesEvaluation and society.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806608140
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-165-0
Physical Description1 online resource (xvi, 246 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Thomas Schwandt
  • Foreword / Guy Widdershoven
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction / Merel Visse and Tineke Abma
  • Chapter 1. On the photo-story of the carefreestate / Tineke Abma, Merel Visse, and Janine Schrijver
  • Part I. Theoretical reflections on a caring society
  • Chapter 2. Care, competency, and knowledge / Maurice Hamington
  • Chapter 3. The art of understanding / Karin Dahlberg
  • Part II. Democratic evaluation for a caring society
  • Chapter 4. Democratic evaluation and care ethics / Helen Simons and Jennifer C. Greene
  • Chapter 5. Democratic caring evaluation for refugee children in Sweden / Anders Hanberger
  • Part III. Ethics and evaluation for a caring society
  • Chapter 6. Uncontrolled evaluation: The case of telecare innovations / Jeannette Pols
  • Chapter 7. Evaluation for moving ethics in health care services towards democratic care: A three pillars model: Education, companionship, and open space / Helen Kohlen
  • Part IV. Responsive evaluation for a caring society
  • Chapter 8. Responding to otherness: The need for experimental-relational spaces / Gustaaf Bos and Tineke Abma
  • Chapter 9. Dialogue, difference, and care in responsive enactments of a world-becoming / Melissa Freeman
  • Chapter 10. Responsive evaluation as a way to create space for sexual diversity: A case example on gay-friendly elderly care / Hannah Leyerzapf, Merel Visse, Arwin de Beer, and Tineke Abma
  • Chapter 11. Evaluation for a caring society: Toward new imaginaries / Merel Visse and Tineke Abma
  • About the contributors.