Evaluation As a Democratic Process Promoting Inclusion, Dialogue, and Deliberation

Inclusive approaches to evaluation emphasizing participation and collaboration can enhance the efficiency of data collection, improve learning, and strengthen commitment to act on results and also reflect the highest aspirations and ideals of a democratic society. The contributors to this volume use case studies to discover the lessons learned so far from successful and unsuccessful attempts to democratize evaluation. They offer ten questions to guide evaluation planning from a deliberative, democratic viewpoint, and look at a failed attempt at inclusive evaluation to analyze how deliberative intentions can be distorted. Focusing on participation, they discuss how best to use different types of dialogue to make evaluation more participatory, examine an evaluation program in a psychiatric institution to explore the challenge of employing participatory, democratic approaches in an anti-democratic environment, and more.Ryan, Katherine E. is the author of 'Evaluation As a Democratic Process Promoting Inclusion, Dialogue, and Deliberation' with ISBN 9780787953713 and ISBN 0787953717.