Evaluative Inquiry for Systemic Change (eBook)

A Guide to Shift Beyond Fixes to Lasting Value

Emily F. Gates, Pablo Vidueira (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2025
209 Seiten
Sage Publications (Verlag)
978-1-0719-6026-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In a world where social, ecological, health, and other problems are influenced by multiple, intersecting systems, why do most interventions target single-factor solutions? Why does so much evaluation settle for incremental change, and how could it contribute instead to deeper, lasting, transformative change? Authors Emily F. Gates and Pablo Vidueira make two interconnected arguments in this book: they critique the "e;fixed"e; approach of traditional program evaluation and policy analysis, and they advance an alternative approach centered on changing systems and developing the value of efforts toward change. They demonstrate that systemic change that embeds evaluative inquiry is a theoretically supported, practical way to work toward fundamental social change with lasting impact.

Inhalt

Preface
About The Authors
Chapter 1: Shift From Fixing to Systemic Change
Shift from Fixing to Systemic Change
Rationales for Systemic Change: Scientific, Critical, and Practical
Five Myths About Systemic Change
Distinguishing Systemic Change from Related Approaches and Examples
Chapter 2: Develop Value Together
What ‘Good’ Means: An Open Question
Shift from Determining to Developing Value
A Critical Deliberative Stance to Develop Value
Evaluation Approaches Aligned with a Critical Deliberative Stance
Five Myths about Evaluating Systemic Change
Chapter 3: Join Together
From Fixed Silos to System Stewardship
Pause Topics: Invitations to Reflect, Discuss, and Co-Create
Practical Tips
Chapter 4: Engage In Systemic Change
Framework and Process of Systemic Change
Focal Processes and Resources for 5 Phases of Systemic Change
Chapter 5: Evaluate To Develop Value
Five Evaluative Elements We Center and Why
Putting it Altogether: Evaluative Inquiry to Develop Value
Chapter 6: Shape Capabilties and Conditions
Why Shape Capabilities and Conditions?
Micro, Meso, and Macro Capabilities and Conditions
Using the Model
Chapter 7: Share And Learn from Examples
Context for our Conversation
Part I. About the Global Alliance for the Future of Food
Part II. How the Global Alliance Engages in Systemic Change
Part III. What Evaluating Looks Like with a Focus on the Five Evaluative Elements
Closing Reflections on this Example
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Glossary
References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.9.2025
• Verlagsort: Thousand Oaks
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• ISBN-10: 1-0719-6026-1 / 1071960261
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0719-6026-4 / 9781071960264