Research Catalog

Title

Evaluating for good practice / Angela Everitt and Pauline Hardiker.

Author

Everitt, Angela.

Publication

Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Hardiker, Pauline.
• British Association of Social Workers.

Description

ix, 223 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Evaluating for Good Practice looks critically at this developing practice of evaluation. It places evaluation in the context of the changing political economy of social welfare, setting out concerns that evaluation has become a mechanism for managerial and financial control, rather than for change in the direction of equality and justice. Ways in which evaluation may contribute to the development of 'good' practice and reveal, or preferably inhibit, 'poor' or 'corrupt' practice are explored." "In developing a critical approach to evaluation, a distinction is made between generating evidence of the practice and making judgements about its value. Critical social science and postmodernist understandings of knowledge, truth and power are drawn upon; evidence is treated as problematic, contested and socially constructed, revealing not 'the truth' but 'truths' of practice." "This text addresses itself to the concerns and preoccupations of students and practitioners both in social work and the broader field of social welfare, encouraging them, amongst other things, to think creatively about ways in which evaluation may be democratised. Methods of research, and also dialogical practices and the arts, may ensure that all have an opportunity to tell the story of practice and to make a judgement of its value."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Practical social work

Uniform Title

Practical social work.

Subject

• Social service > Great Britain > Evaluation
• Social workers > Rating of > Great Britain
• Social Work > Great Britain
• Welfare work
• Great Britain

Note

• Includes index.
• At foot of cover: BASW.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 197-215.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Evaluation in Practice: Our Approach -- 2. The Purposes of Evaluation -- 3. Facts, Truth and Values -- 4. Measuring Performance -- 5. Towards a Critical Approach to Evaluation -- 6. Designs for Critical Evaluation -- 7. Generating Evidence About Practice -- 8. Making Judgements and Effecting Change -- 9. Conclusion.

ISBN

0333599675 (pbk) :

LCCN

gb^96014052^

OCLC

• 34322090
• SCSB-12560547

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library