Evaluative research methods : managing the complexities of judgement in the field

How do research students and their supervisors respond in a world of 'fake news', the destabilisation of public institutions and the rise of populism? The very foundations of our liberal democracies seem to be under threat, and this implicates social inquiry. Postgraduate research remains...

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Main Author Kushner, Saville (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2017]
SeriesEvaluation and society.
Subjects
Research > Methodology.
Research > Evaluation.
Research > Moral and ethical aspects.
Science > Research & Methodology.
Research methods: general.
Scientific research.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806609345
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-690-2
Physical Description1 online resource (xvi, 280 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Outline of the book
  • Part I. Introductions
  • Chapter 1. What is evaluative research and how are you positioned within it?
  • Chapter 2. Evaluative enquiry and democracy: Where it came from and where it might go
  • Chapter 3. Social change and evaluative research
  • Chapter 4. Theorizing, contingency, and evaluative cognition: Conceptual tools to help you read the book
  • Part II. The craft of evaluative research
  • Chapter 5. The 'self' and the 'person': Democratic individualism
  • Chapter 6. Evaluative interviewing
  • Chapter 7. Observation-based interviewing, triangulation and the redistribution of power
  • Chapter 8. On bullfighting, the fragile self, and an Introduction to evaluative case study
  • Chapter 9. Analyzing organization as an evaluative case
  • Chapter 10. Writing democratically, and finding your own voice
  • Part III. The politics of evaluative research: Dangers in the field
  • Chapter 11. Quieting reform: When evaluative research can be dangerous, with robert stake and acacia cochise
  • Chapter 12. Politics and negotiation in evaluative enquiry
  • Chapter 13. Evaluation inside the political system, with barry kushner
  • Chapter 14. Radical manifestos for evaluative research
  • Part IV. Critiques of currently popular evaluation practices, the way forward
  • Chapter 15. Democracy, theory, and logic in evaluative research: Beware of rationalism
  • Chapter 16. Democracy and method in international development evaluation
  • Chapter 17. Arriving backwards: Evaluative enquiry, innovation, and democracy
  • References.

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