Helen Simons
Biographic Data
| ID | 244410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Simons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Simons |
| SIGNATURE | SIMONS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Case Study Research
This chapter explores case study as a major approach to research and evaluation. After first noting various contexts in which case studies are commonly used, the chapter focuses on case study research directly. Strengths and potential problematic issues are outlined, followed by key phases of the process. The chapter emphasizes how important it is to design the case, to collect and interpret data in ways that highlight the qualitative, to have an…
Enriching evaluation practice through care ethics
Recently, several authors have called for a critical assessment of the normative dimensions of evaluation practice. This article responds to this call by demonstrating how evaluation practice can be enriched through deliberate engagement with care ethics. Care ethics has a relational and practice view of morality and places caring relationships and responsibilities at the forefront of our being in the world. We will demonstrate how care ethics, i…
Interpret in context
This article presents an argument for how to generalize from a single case study evaluation of a social programme or policy, focusing on two essential elements of case study – context and particularity. Taking an interpretivist perspective and drawing on artistic and humanistic ways of understanding, it examines both different ways of generalizing from the case that retain a connection with the context in which they first arose and how we general…
Situated Ethics in Educational Research
School self-evaluation for development
This paper explores the case for schools conducting their own self-evaluation to serve the dual purpose of professional development within schools and accountability demands from external sources. The paper is in three parts. The first outlines the argument and benefits for schools conducting their own case study evaluation of their curriculum policies and practices, indicating how this approach is both similar to and different from external case…
Case Study Research in Practice
Case Study Research in Practice explores the theory and practice of case study research. Helen Simons draws on her extensive experience of teaching and conducting case study to provide a comprehensive and practical account of how to design, conduct and communicate case study research. It addresses questions often raised by students and common misconceptions about case research. In four sections the book covers - Rationale, concept and design of c…
Integrating Arts-Based Inquiry in Evaluation Methodology
This article examines the case for the use of the creative arts in the process of designing, conducting, analyzing, and disseminating evaluations. The authors argue that using the creative arts in the process of evaluation evokes different ways of knowing and understanding the values of a program. The insights gained offer a unique addition to evaluation methodology. This not only broadens the perspective of what counts as evaluation knowledge bu…
Opening Doors
This article explores how using the creative arts in teaching in higher education can engage and empower individuals who learn in different ways, and who may have been excluded from traditional forms of learning which value cognitive and verbal means of learning and assessment. Drawing on an evaluation of a creative arts module in higher education, which used drama, movement, music, and visual art as teaching methods, the article first outlines a…
Utilizing Evaluation Evidence to Enhance Professional Practice
The purpose of this article is to re-examine the current use of what is to count as evaluation evidence to inform professional practice. The provision of evaluation evidence to inform decision making has long been an aspiration, albeit with varying degrees of success. However the need to re-examine the utility of this endeavour has arisen in the contemporary culture of evidence-based policy and practice. The main argument of the article is that t…
Evidence‐based practice
This issue on evidence-based practice in education locates the rise of contemporary interest in evidence-based practice in the political culture of our times and the dominant discourse, noted and critiqued in several of the papers, of the government's agenda of ‘what works’. It outlines the motivations and origins of the current movement and the different forms of evidence advanced to serve policy and practice. The paper briefly explores the oft-…
From evidence‐based practice to practice‐based evidence
Governments across the world are seeking improvements in school performance. One avenue to improvement that has been widely promulgated is the reform of teaching through the development of evidence‐based practice. This paper reports evaluation data from a national programme in England that sought to put teachers at the heart of the search for evidence on which improvements in practice could be based. The analysis indicates that in each stage of t…
Cultural Codes – Who Holds the Key
This article examines the impact of cultural codes on the conduct and outcomes of evaluation. Cultural codes are defined as symbols and systems of meaning that are relevant to members of a particular culture (or subculture). These codes can be utilized to facilitate communication within the ‘inside group’ and also to obscure the meaning to ‘outside groups’. Drawing on the authors' combined experiences in Central and Eastern Europe, the article ex…
Struggles in Southern Africa for Survival and Equality
Simons - Index
The Politics and Ethics of Educational Research in England
Government sponsored educational research is increasingly subject to contractual control over the design of the research, dissemination and publication and even the research process itself. This paper argues that this current policy context poses a threat to the quality of educational research and places severe limitations on the contribution it can make to the generation of public knowledge and the utilisation of research in educational policy‐m…
Tribal medicine
SYNOPSIS The survival of African tribal medicine is discussed in relation to its legal status and therapeutical value. There are indications that it was not grossly deficient, at the time when White settlement began, in relation to either tribal needs or European medical practice. The associated pattern of ideas in tribal society is surveyed, and a parallel is drawn with attitudes to magic in European mediaeval society. Modern medicine is now fir…
Integrating Arts-Based Inquiry in Evaluation Methodology
This article examines the case for the use of the creative arts in the process of designing, conducting, analyzing, and disseminating evaluations. The authors argue that using the creative arts in the process of evaluation evokes different ways of knowing and understanding the values of a program. The insights gained offer a unique addition to evaluation methodology. This not only broadens the perspective of what counts as evaluation knowledge bu…
Utilizing Evaluation Evidence to Enhance Professional Practice
The purpose of this article is to re-examine the current use of what is to count as evaluation evidence to inform professional practice. The provision of evaluation evidence to inform decision making has long been an aspiration, albeit with varying degrees of success. However the need to re-examine the utility of this endeavour has arisen in the contemporary culture of evidence-based policy and practice. The main argument of the article is that t…
Opening Doors
This article explores how using the creative arts in teaching in higher education can engage and empower individuals who learn in different ways, and who may have been excluded from traditional forms of learning which value cognitive and verbal means of learning and assessment. Drawing on an evaluation of a creative arts module in higher education, which used drama, movement, music, and visual art as teaching methods, the article first outlines a…
Interpret in context
This article presents an argument for how to generalize from a single case study evaluation of a social programme or policy, focusing on two essential elements of case study – context and particularity. Taking an interpretivist perspective and drawing on artistic and humanistic ways of understanding, it examines both different ways of generalizing from the case that retain a connection with the context in which they first arose and how we general…
Cultural Codes – Who Holds the Key
This article examines the impact of cultural codes on the conduct and outcomes of evaluation. Cultural codes are defined as symbols and systems of meaning that are relevant to members of a particular culture (or subculture). These codes can be utilized to facilitate communication within the ‘inside group’ and also to obscure the meaning to ‘outside groups’. Drawing on the authors' combined experiences in Central and Eastern Europe, the article ex…
From evidence‐based practice to practice‐based evidence
Governments across the world are seeking improvements in school performance. One avenue to improvement that has been widely promulgated is the reform of teaching through the development of evidence‐based practice. This paper reports evaluation data from a national programme in England that sought to put teachers at the heart of the search for evidence on which improvements in practice could be based. The analysis indicates that in each stage of t…
The Politics and Ethics of Educational Research in England
Government sponsored educational research is increasingly subject to contractual control over the design of the research, dissemination and publication and even the research process itself. This paper argues that this current policy context poses a threat to the quality of educational research and places severe limitations on the contribution it can make to the generation of public knowledge and the utilisation of research in educational policy‐m…
Enriching evaluation practice through care ethics
Recently, several authors have called for a critical assessment of the normative dimensions of evaluation practice. This article responds to this call by demonstrating how evaluation practice can be enriched through deliberate engagement with care ethics. Care ethics has a relational and practice view of morality and places caring relationships and responsibilities at the forefront of our being in the world. We will demonstrate how care ethics, i…
Evidence‐based practice
This issue on evidence-based practice in education locates the rise of contemporary interest in evidence-based practice in the political culture of our times and the dominant discourse, noted and critiqued in several of the papers, of the government's agenda of ‘what works’. It outlines the motivations and origins of the current movement and the different forms of evidence advanced to serve policy and practice. The paper briefly explores the oft-…
Tribal medicine
SYNOPSIS The survival of African tribal medicine is discussed in relation to its legal status and therapeutical value. There are indications that it was not grossly deficient, at the time when White settlement began, in relation to either tribal needs or European medical practice. The associated pattern of ideas in tribal society is surveyed, and a parallel is drawn with attitudes to magic in European mediaeval society. Modern medicine is now fir…
School self-evaluation for development
This paper explores the case for schools conducting their own self-evaluation to serve the dual purpose of professional development within schools and accountability demands from external sources. The paper is in three parts. The first outlines the argument and benefits for schools conducting their own case study evaluation of their curriculum policies and practices, indicating how this approach is both similar to and different from external case…
Tribal medicine
SYNOPSIS The survival of African tribal medicine is discussed in relation to its legal status and therapeutical value. There are indications that it was not grossly deficient, at the time when White settlement began, in relation to either tribal needs or European medical practice. The associated pattern of ideas in tribal society is surveyed, and a parallel is drawn with attitudes to magic in European mediaeval society. Modern medicine is now fir…
The Politics and Ethics of Educational Research in England
Government sponsored educational research is increasingly subject to contractual control over the design of the research, dissemination and publication and even the research process itself. This paper argues that this current policy context poses a threat to the quality of educational research and places severe limitations on the contribution it can make to the generation of public knowledge and the utilisation of research in educational policy‐m…
Cultural Codes – Who Holds the Key
This article examines the impact of cultural codes on the conduct and outcomes of evaluation. Cultural codes are defined as symbols and systems of meaning that are relevant to members of a particular culture (or subculture). These codes can be utilized to facilitate communication within the ‘inside group’ and also to obscure the meaning to ‘outside groups’. Drawing on the authors' combined experiences in Central and Eastern Europe, the article ex…
Struggles in Southern Africa for Survival and Equality
Simons - Index
Evidence‐based practice
This issue on evidence-based practice in education locates the rise of contemporary interest in evidence-based practice in the political culture of our times and the dominant discourse, noted and critiqued in several of the papers, of the government's agenda of ‘what works’. It outlines the motivations and origins of the current movement and the different forms of evidence advanced to serve policy and practice. The paper briefly explores the oft-…
From evidence‐based practice to practice‐based evidence
Governments across the world are seeking improvements in school performance. One avenue to improvement that has been widely promulgated is the reform of teaching through the development of evidence‐based practice. This paper reports evaluation data from a national programme in England that sought to put teachers at the heart of the search for evidence on which improvements in practice could be based. The analysis indicates that in each stage of t…
Utilizing Evaluation Evidence to Enhance Professional Practice
The purpose of this article is to re-examine the current use of what is to count as evaluation evidence to inform professional practice. The provision of evaluation evidence to inform decision making has long been an aspiration, albeit with varying degrees of success. However the need to re-examine the utility of this endeavour has arisen in the contemporary culture of evidence-based policy and practice. The main argument of the article is that t…
Opening Doors
This article explores how using the creative arts in teaching in higher education can engage and empower individuals who learn in different ways, and who may have been excluded from traditional forms of learning which value cognitive and verbal means of learning and assessment. Drawing on an evaluation of a creative arts module in higher education, which used drama, movement, music, and visual art as teaching methods, the article first outlines a…
Integrating Arts-Based Inquiry in Evaluation Methodology
This article examines the case for the use of the creative arts in the process of designing, conducting, analyzing, and disseminating evaluations. The authors argue that using the creative arts in the process of evaluation evokes different ways of knowing and understanding the values of a program. The insights gained offer a unique addition to evaluation methodology. This not only broadens the perspective of what counts as evaluation knowledge bu…
Case Study Research in Practice
Case Study Research in Practice explores the theory and practice of case study research. Helen Simons draws on her extensive experience of teaching and conducting case study to provide a comprehensive and practical account of how to design, conduct and communicate case study research. It addresses questions often raised by students and common misconceptions about case research. In four sections the book covers - Rationale, concept and design of c…
School self-evaluation for development
This paper explores the case for schools conducting their own self-evaluation to serve the dual purpose of professional development within schools and accountability demands from external sources. The paper is in three parts. The first outlines the argument and benefits for schools conducting their own case study evaluation of their curriculum policies and practices, indicating how this approach is both similar to and different from external case…
Situated Ethics in Educational Research
Interpret in context
This article presents an argument for how to generalize from a single case study evaluation of a social programme or policy, focusing on two essential elements of case study – context and particularity. Taking an interpretivist perspective and drawing on artistic and humanistic ways of understanding, it examines both different ways of generalizing from the case that retain a connection with the context in which they first arose and how we general…
Case Study Research
This chapter explores case study as a major approach to research and evaluation. After first noting various contexts in which case studies are commonly used, the chapter focuses on case study research directly. Strengths and potential problematic issues are outlined, followed by key phases of the process. The chapter emphasizes how important it is to design the case, to collect and interpret data in ways that highlight the qualitative, to have an…
Enriching evaluation practice through care ethics
Recently, several authors have called for a critical assessment of the normative dimensions of evaluation practice. This article responds to this call by demonstrating how evaluation practice can be enriched through deliberate engagement with care ethics. Care ethics has a relational and practice view of morality and places caring relationships and responsibilities at the forefront of our being in the world. We will demonstrate how care ethics, i…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Engineering ethics (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Law (5 works)