On Ambition, Learning, and Co-Evolution: Building Evaluation as a Field

Autor/inn/en	Sridharan, Sanjeev; De Silva, Soma
Titel	On Ambition, Learning, and Co-Evolution: Building Evaluation as a Field
Quelle	In: American Journal of Evaluation, 31 (2010) 2, S.246-251 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1098-2140
DOI	10.1177/1098214010366297
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Evaluators; Program Evaluation; Aspiration; Foreign Countries; Evaluation Research; Evaluation Needs; Evaluation Problems; Adoption (Ideas); Partnerships in Education; Reflection; Educational Development; Professional Development; Asia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Streben; Ausland; Evaluationsforschung; Ideas; Ideenfindung; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Bildungsentwicklung; Asien
Abstract	The papers in this dialogue help develop evaluation as a field (both in South Asia and other regions). What comes through in all of the papers is both humility of where evaluation is as a field and imagination and ambition of where evaluators could be in the near future. Reading the papers in this forum makes them enthusiastic about being evaluators. The papers are a testament to the need for ambition about the field--it is probably time to move beyond narrow debates on projects and program evaluation to larger questions of how evaluations can contribute toward development and perhaps more generally social betterment. The papers collectively focus on the importance of learning from prior capacity building experiments and adventures. The papers in this forum serve to celebrate the tremendous opportunities that exist in South Asia to translate this aspiration into "real capacity" that serves the goals of development and social betterment. The authors' view is that this task of translating the vision into practice will take focused ambition, a culture of learning, and an openness to create multiple systems of feedback in learning between the West and South Asia. They summarize and reinforce how the many points in these papers address the "evaluation gap" discussed by Carden. (Contains 6 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10