Towards an integrated model of practice evaluation balancing accountability, critical knowledge and developmental perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3655378 |
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| Authors | Paul Stepney (University of Wolverhampton, corresponding author), Ilmari Rostila (Tampere University) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133-146 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Sociology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-1242 • E-ISSN: 1839-3551 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5172/hesr.2011.20.2.133 |
| OpenAlex | W1981160058 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
Against a backdrop of economic globalisation, where welfare practitioners find themselves caught between modernising policy reform and demanding practice realities, there is an urgent need to rethink the relationship between research, evaluation and professional practice. In this article three perspectives concerned with accountability, critical knowledge production and development will be examined as a basis for understanding the different methodological discourses on evaluation. The debate between evidence-based practice (EBP) and critical practice (CP) is deployed to highlight a choice facing both the practitioner and researcher between producing two competing kinds of knowledge for practice. The former is based upon technical know how and skills that may be equated with a ‘search for certainty’ and found increasingly in technocratic systems of accountability; whilst the latter is concerned with critical exploration and development in promoting more emancipatory forms of practice that may be equated with the ‘creative use of uncertainty’. Drawing on practice examples and research from the field of mental health, it is argued that balancing accountability, critical knowledge production and development offers a valid paradigm for achieving effective practice evaluation alongside a broader commitment to social justice
Accountability · Certainty · Economic Justice · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Technocracy · Engineering · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Social Work Education and Practice
Epistemological and methodological bases of naturalistic inquiry
Evidence based medicine
Hospital discharge and the citizenship rights of older people
Managerial audit and community mental health
When Evaluation Meets the ‘Rough Ground’ in Communities
Practitioner Evaluation at Work
English Social Work at the Crossroads
How Social is Social Policy? Fiscal and Market Discourse in North American Welfare States
Stress and Pressures in Mental Health Social Work
Looking Back
The Impact of Audit on Social Work Practice
Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution? The Role of Care Homes in Tackling Delayed Hospital Discharges
Mission Impossible? Critical Practice in Social Work
Some considerations on the validity of evidence-based practice in social work
From therapy to administration
| Highly cited | No |
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