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Beyond Ubuntu: Nnoboa and Sankofa as Decolonizing and Indigenous Evaluation Epistemic Foundations from Ghana 超越Ubuntu:加纳的Nnoboa和Sankofa作为非殖民化和土著评价的认知基础

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.789

Douglas Asante, T. Archibald

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Foreword 前言

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.929

I. Goldman

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Decolonizing Evaluation of Indigenous Land-Based Programs: A Settler Perspective on What We Can Learn from the LANDBACK Movement 土著土地项目的非殖民化评估：从定居者的角度看我们可以从LANDBACK运动中学到什么

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.773

Debbie DeLancey

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The Pursuit of Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice through Evaluation: Learning from Indigenous Scholars and the Fifth Branch of the Evaluation Theory Tree 通过评估追求社会、经济和环境正义:向本土学者学习与评估理论树的第五分支

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.749

D. Mertens

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Special Issue Editors' Introductory Note: The Why and How of the Decolonization Discourse 特刊编辑导语：非殖民化话语的原因与方式

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.919

B. Chilisa, Nicole Bowman

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Between Funding Requirements and Community Priorities: Centro Hispano of Dane County’s Transformative Approach to Program Evaluation 在资金需求和社区优先事项之间：丹县Hispano中心的项目评估转型方法

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.787

Vivien Ahrens, E. Cruz, Mariana Pasturczak, L. Bakken, T. R. Moore

{"title":"Between Funding Requirements and Community Priorities: Centro Hispano of Dane County’s Transformative Approach to Program Evaluation","authors":"Vivien Ahrens, E. Cruz, Mariana Pasturczak, L. Bakken, T. R. Moore","doi":"10.56645/jmde.v19i44.787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v19i44.787","url":null,"abstract":"Evaluation approaches that aim to support large-scale social change need to address neoliberal logic ingrained in the way evaluation has been institutionalized in the US since the early 1900s. Harmful dynamics resulting from evaluation’s institutional history include (1) a focus on accountability and effectiveness, (2) the perpetuation of deficit-based narratives about communities of color, and (3) a top-down approach to program development, in which funders define program goals and assessment criteria and outside academics are hired to provide research services. In consequence, evaluation contributes to the extraction and devaluation of community expertise rather than fostering learning, collaboration, critical reflection, and healing. \u0000This article highlights ways of addressing these harmful dynamics through a case study that exemplifies an innovative evaluation approach focused on community strengths and values, healing ethno-racial trauma, and critical consciousness building. We call for funders to rethink their requirements for evaluation and emphasize the need to support evaluation infrastructure, time for critical reflection, and the development of community- and asset-based, culturally responsive evaluation approaches and tools.","PeriodicalId":91909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42768516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Liberated or Recolonized: Making the Case for Embodied Evaluation in Peacebuilding 解放或重新殖民化：为建设和平中的具体评价提供理由

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.811

Ruby Quantson Davis

{"title":"Liberated or Recolonized: Making the Case for Embodied Evaluation in Peacebuilding","authors":"Ruby Quantson Davis","doi":"10.56645/jmde.v19i44.811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v19i44.811","url":null,"abstract":"The quest to liberate and decolonize evaluation could create a recolonizing process in development evaluation unless practitioners pay attention to an embodied process that allows persons and communities in the global south to bring all of their epistemologies to an evaluation process. This will enable evaluation to be a learning process through which communities gain insights from their programs through their own ways of knowing. Constrained by time, resources, and limited commitment to the decolonization agenda, organizations and experts in evaluation could cause further harm to indigenous and local ways of knowing through half-baked decolonization processes . Through the lens of peacebuilding, this paper proposes an embodied evaluation as a practical way to decolonize evaluation, and reduce the risk of recolonizing the concepts and processes of project evaluation while addressing some of the power imbalances that lie beneath traditional evaluation and development. This paper suggests that monitoring , evaluation and learning of projects should be led by those most affected and closest to the problem being addressed and experts who assist in these processes should a assume a collaborative approach that requires the embodiment of the process and experiences of the affected. This approach is likely to generate reports through the world views of those affected and reduce dominance and imposition of external methodologies that distort outcomes of programmes. This paper is a reflection on practice, and a prompt for further research on embodied evaluation as a decolonizing agenda.","PeriodicalId":91909,"journal":{"name":"Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48073028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evaluation Transformation Implies Its Decolonization 评价转型意味着它的非殖民化

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.797

R. Picciotto

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Framing Anticolonialism in Evaluation: Bridging Decolonizing Methodologies and Culturally Responsive Evaluation 在评估中构建反殖民主义:连接非殖民化方法和文化响应性评估

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.769

Lorien S. Jordan, Jori Hall

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Entering the Ethical Space Between Epistemologies: A Step Toward Decolonizing the Heart and Mind 进入认识论之间的伦理空间：迈向心灵非殖民化的一步

Journal of multidisciplinary evaluation Pub Date : 2023-07-20 DOI: 10.56645/jmde.v19i44.759

J. Billman

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