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Case Study Evaluation: Past, Present and Future Challenges (Advances in Program Evaluation)
Trish Greenhalgh (Ed.)
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Description for Case Study Evaluation: Past, Present and Future Challenges (Advances in Program Evaluation)
Hardcover. This volume explores the vital contribution of case study as an evaluation approach that links methodology and political purpose, and opens up new ways of seeing. Editor(s): Greenhalgh, Trish; Russell, Jill; Kushner, Saville. Series: Advances in Program Evaluation. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 232 x 18. Weight in Grams: 532.
In today's world, with its preoccupation with impact assessments and results-based management, program evaluation is all too often framed as an affirmation of an official narrative rather than as a source of alternatives. The power of case study is its insistence on opening up rather than suppressing the complexity of social programs, on documenting multiple voices and exploring contested viewpoints. In this way, case study resists the trend towards evaluations that simply focus on 'what works', that reduce the complexity of social life to a single narrative, and to formulations that strip out most of what matters. ... Read more
In today's world, with its preoccupation with impact assessments and results-based management, program evaluation is all too often framed as an affirmation of an official narrative rather than as a source of alternatives. The power of case study is its insistence on opening up rather than suppressing the complexity of social programs, on documenting multiple voices and exploring contested viewpoints. In this way, case study resists the trend towards evaluations that simply focus on 'what works', that reduce the complexity of social life to a single narrative, and to formulations that strip out most of what matters. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Advances in Program Evaluation
Condition
New
Weight
542 g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784410643
SKU
V9781784410643
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