Values in evaluation and social research /
por Ernest R. House, Kenneth R. Howe. --
- Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1999.
- xxi, 152 p.
Inclui índice e bibliografia
Introduction: The Problem of Values -- The argument of this book -- Critiques of other views -- The deliberative democratic view Part I: Value claims -- 1. Facts and values -- The fact-value continuum -- Values as emergent -- Values and democratic deliberation 2. Evaluative Reasoning -- Evaluation reasoning -- Evaluation audiences and stakeholders -- Points of view -- An example -- Deliberation in context Part II: Critiques of other views -- 3. The Received View -- The radical undecidability thesis -- The emotive conception of democracy 4. The Radical Constructivist View -- Radical constructivism characterized -- Facts, values, and epistemology -- The practice of evaluation 5. The Postmodern View -- Facts, values, and epistemology -- The practice of evaluation -- A critique of postmodernism Part III: Deliberative democratic evaluation -- 6. The Deliberative Democratic View -- Deliberative democratic evaluation -- Locating deliberative democracy within political theory 7. Good Practice -- Critical questions -- Other examples -- A hypothetical example Conclusion: The Role of Evaluation in Society -- Deliberative democracy -- Characteristics of evaluation -- Characteristics of evaluators