Commentary: reinventing evaluation

This commentary reviews 'Negotiating Researcher Roles in Ethnographic Program Evaluation' and discusses the changing field of evaluation. It situates postmodern deliberations in evaluation anthropology and ethnoevaluation, two concepts that explore the interdisciplinary merger in evaluatio...

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Published in:Anthropology & education quarterly 2005-09, Vol.36 (3), p.289-295
Main Author: Hopson, Rodney K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Education
Evaluation
Pedagogy
Postmodernism
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Summary:This commentary reviews 'Negotiating Researcher Roles in Ethnographic Program Evaluation' and discusses the changing field of evaluation. It situates postmodern deliberations in evaluation anthropology and ethnoevaluation, two concepts that explore the interdisciplinary merger in evaluation, ethnography, and anthropology. Reflecting on Hymes's seminal work, the commentary invites reinvention of evaluation and consideration of its value, purpose, and use in scholarly analyses of schooling, human learning, problems of practice, the teaching of anthropology, and larger theoretical questions within the field. Reprinted by permission of the American Anthropological Association and the University of California Press
ISSN:0161-7761