Opening Thoughts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12567985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tineke Abma (0000-0002-8902-322X, corresponding author), Tineke A Abma (Erasmus University, Holland) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-163 |
| Publication date | 2001-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Evaluation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-3890 • E-ISSN: 1461-7153 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13563890122209595 |
| OpenAlex | W4205441883 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 13 |
Today many disciplines including organization and management, public administration, social psychology, educational research and political science are becoming interested in dialogue. Evaluators are only just beginning to recognize how valuable dialogue can be for their work. Dialogue may have the potential to improve the democratic quality of decision making and judgement in postmodern societies and enhance (mutual) understanding between people. In this special issue we aim to disentangle some of the complexities, meanings and aims of dialogue and dialogical evaluation. A number of evaluation scholars and practitioners will discuss different notions of the concept and its relevance for evaluation practice. They will also deal with some practical considerations: what are the essential characteristics of evaluation dialogue; who should participate and what should the role and responsibility of evaluators be. We will also identify areas where we think caution should be exercised. Examples of dialogical evaluation projects in various policy settings and countries – including Sweden, Holland and the USA – together with comments by other scholars are meant to stimulate an exchange of ideas
Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Dialogical self · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Judgement · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Quality (philosophy · Relevance (law · Sociology · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Psychology · Social Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Collaboration and co‐ownership in research
Critical Connections between Participatory Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Intentional Change in Pluralistic Organizations
Utilizing Evaluation Evidence to Enhance Professional Practice
The Evaluator as a Critical Interpreter
Public Managers Amidst Ambiguity
Management by Measurement? Public Management Practices Amidst Ambiguity
Critical policy evaluation and the question of values
On Dialogue
Values in Evaluation and Social Research
Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations
Strong Democracy
Nomadic subjects
Relational Responsibility
Fourth-Generation Evaluation
Evaluation as Practical Hermeneutics
Beyond Technique
Playing With/In Plurality
A Critical Dialogue in Evaluation
Participatory Evaluation of Development Assistance
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2012 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |