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Evaluation for Equity: Reclaiming Evaluation by Striving towards Counter-Hegemonic Democratic Practices

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العنوان: Evaluation for Equity: Reclaiming Evaluation by Striving towards Counter-Hegemonic Democratic Practices
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Gordon, Rhyall Barry (ORCID 0000-0001-8022-5493), Lumb, Matt (ORCID 0000-0002-7788-1956), Bunn, Matthew (ORCID 0000-0001-6184-5312), Burke, Penny Jane (ORCID 0000-0001-9924-706X)
المصدر: Journal of Educational Administration and History. 2022 54(3):277-290.
الإتاحة: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 14
تاريخ النشر: 2022
نوع الوثيقة: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Social Justice, Democratic Values, Equal Education, Higher Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Student Diversity, Student Evaluation
مصطلحات جغرافية: Australia
DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2021.1931059
تدمد: 0022-0620
1478-7431
مستخلص: Formal evaluation of policies, programmes and people has become ubiquitous in contemporary western contexts. This is the case for equity and widening participation (WP) agendas in higher education, for which evaluation is often required to measure 'what works'. Although evaluation has a 'fundamentally social, political, and value-oriented character' (Guba and Lincoln. 1989. "Fourth Generation Evaluation." Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 7), an experimental approach, situated within hegemonic positivist epistemologies, has tended to prevail. In this paper, we argue that it is misguided to pursue evaluation with an apolitical pretext of independence and objectivity. Drawing on Butler's concept of performativity, we explore how hegemonic anti-democratic evaluation practices can potentially re-inscribe and reproduce the very inequalities that WP seeks to address. By critiquing the technologies of evaluation, we lay out one way of understanding how democratic evaluation practices can reclaim evaluation to make possible more diverse and socially just worlds.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2022
رقم الأكسشن: EJ1354844
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC