Hello, AEA365 community! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. This week is Individuals Week, which means we take a break from our themed weeks and spotlight the Hot Tips, Cool Tricks, Rad Resources and Lessons Learned from any evaluator interested in sharing. Would you like to contribute to future individuals weeks? Email me at AEA365@eval.org with an idea or a draft and we will make it happen.
Hello AEA365 subscribers! We are Alysson Akiko Oakley and Caitlin Blaser-Mapitsa, and we are the co-editors of the International Advances in Evaluation section of the American Journal of Evaluation (AJE). We are thrilled to share articles with you that are featured in an upcoming AJE issue. These articles highlight the interplay between geography (global, local), principles, and culture in informing evaluation practice.
We invited this issue’s authors to provide a snapshot of their articles in 1-minute videos, to make their topics and findings accessible to a larger audience. We hope you take a break today to listen to your peers talk about their work, and think about how to apply it to your own!
Rad Resources
- Julia Espinosa-Fajardo, Pablo Rodríguez-Bilella, and Esteban Tapella talk here about ways in which methods can be tailored to a specific place, using experiences from 15 evaluations that included components of participatory engagement, in Principles for Stakeholder Involvement in Evaluation in Latin America .
- Phuntsho Choden and Fiona Cram talk about how Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness could be translated into an evaluative framework with culturally responsive characteristics, in Capturing Bhutan’s Cultural Uniqueness: A Culturally Responsive Critique of a Bhutanese Evaluation Report.
- Alison Rogers, Amy Gullickson, Jean A. King, and Elizabeth McKinley describe how evaluation advocates have navigated culturally diverse contexts to promote evaluation use, in How Evaluation Advocates Use Interpersonal Skills to Engage Their Colleagues in Evaluation.
- Christopher J. Johnstone, Anne Hayes, Elisheva Cohen, Hayley Niad, George Laryea-Adjei, Kathleen Letshabo, Adrian Shikwe, and Augustine Agu consider the processes required to integrate principles in evaluation practice in A Human Rights-Based Evaluation Approach for Inclusive Education.
- Also please check out the article by Evans S. Boadu and Isioma Ile in which they present a typology of indigenous social patterns that could inform a relational evaluation framework, in Beyond the Buzzword: A Framework for an Indigenous Relational Evaluation in Traditional Communities in Ghana.
Hot Tips
Looking to share your experience? Look no more!
Consider submitting an article to AJE. We welcome all sorts of perspectives and styles.
Reach out to the Section Editors or Editors-in-Chief for questions about various types of submissions: essays or opinions, book reviews, economic evaluation, experimental methodology, international advances in evaluation, methods notes, teaching and learning of evaluation, or ethics, value and culture.
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