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IDPE Week: Why I love teaching interdisciplinary evaluation by Michael Harnar

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Teaching of Evaluation / May 16, 2020

My name is Michael Harnar. I have been in the evaluation discipline for about 16 years and for almost 3 years an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University. Today I want to talk about what I like about teaching in an interdisciplinary program. By my very nature, I am attracted to …

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Reflections on Constructivism Week: Viewing problems through paradigmatic lenses by Amy Jersild

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 28, 2020

Greetings! My name is Amy Jersild, Doctoral Scholar at Western Michigan University (WMU), an evaluator working in the international development sector, and currently a student in Dr. Michael Harnar’s Qualitative Research Methods in Evaluation course at WMU. We have been reading Constructivist Credo by Yvonna S. Lincoln and Egon G. Guba (2013) in class, and …

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Reflections on Constructivism Week: Valuing whose values? by Valerie Marshall

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 28, 2020

Hello! My name is Valerie Marshall. I am a Project Manager at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University and a student in Michael Harnar’s Qualitative Research Methods in Evaluation class. Today, I would like to talk with you about the integral place of values in evaluation. Values underlie the standards and criteria used to …

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Reflections on Constructivism Week: The Constructivism of Everyday Evaluation by Zach Tilton

Leave a Comment / Qualitative Methods / March 15, 2020

I am Zach Tilton, an evaluator and a doctoral student at Western Michigan University in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program. Pursuing a PhD in evaluation while working as an evaluator allows me to integrate class insights to enhance my work and work experiences to ground my studies. This interplay between theory and practice was …

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Reflections on Constructivism Week: (Re)Constructing Identity and Hierarchy by Fernando Ospina

2 Comments / Qualitative Methods / March 15, 2020

My name is Fernando Ospina and I am a PhD student in sociology at Western Michigan University. I had the opportunity to take a qualitative methods in evaluation course in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program. As a part of our coursework we wrote blog posts analyzing Lincoln and Guba’s constructivist conjectures. The conjecture that …

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Reflections on Constructivism Week: Sensemaking as theory development by Amy Jersild

1 Comment / Qualitative Methods / March 15, 2020

Greetings! My name is Amy Jersild, Doctoral Scholar at Western Michigan University (WMU), an evaluator working in the international development sector, and currently a student in Dr. Michael Harnar’s Qualitative Research Methods in Evaluation course at WMU. We have been reading The Constructivist Credo by Yvonna S. Lincoln and Egon G. Guba (2013) in class, …

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Reflections on Constructivism Week: Introduction by Michael Harnar

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / March 22, 2020

My name is Michael Harnar. I have been in the evaluation discipline for about 16 years and for the last 2.5 years I’ve been an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University. One of my favorite courses to teach at the graduate level is qualitative research methods for evaluators. I like it …

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