The Impact of Community Work

How to Gather Evidence

Karen McArdle, Sue Briggs, Kirsty Forrester, Ed Garrett, Catherine McKay (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2020
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-4394-3 (ISBN)

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This book provides practical guidance for professionals and pre-qualifying students on how to gather and generate evidence of the impact of projects in the community. It includes case studies from a range of community settings and is full of easy to implement ideas, tools and examples of methods to demonstrate the impact of work in the community.

This book provides essential guidance for professionals and pre-qualifying students on how to gather and generate evidence of the impact of projects in the community.

Including case studies from diverse community settings, it provides easy to implement, practical ideas and examples of methods to demonstrate the impact of community work.

Considering not only evaluation, but also the complex processes of evidence gathering, it will help all those involved with work in the community to demonstrate the impact and value of their work. The book provides:

•guidance for how to present different findings to different audiences;

•methods for effectively demonstrating the value of your work;

•how to demonstrate the scale, quality and significance of impact.

Karen McArdle has worked in the community development field for over 30 years and taught evaluation to professionals across multiple community contexts. Kirsty Forrester has worked extensively as a community learning and development worker in local authority, third sector, social work and health settings. Catherine McKay has worked for 37 years in Community Learning and Development at local and national policy levels across Scotland. Ed Garrett combines an academic background in research and teaching with over fifteen years’ experience as a community development worker in the voluntary sector. Sue Briggs is a local authority development officer with experience of managing quality improvement approaches, professional development and community learning development practice.

Introduction

Part One

Impact, Evidence and Transformation ~ Karen McArdle

Power, Empowerment, Impact and Voice ~ Karen McArdle

A Challenging Context in which Values Matter ~ Karen McArdle

Part Two

Presenting Findings to Different Audiences ~ Catherine Mckay and Karen McArdle

Planning and Evaluating ~ Karen McArdle, Kirsty Forrester, Ed Garrett

Anecdote and Observation ~ Ed Garrett, Karen McArdle

Questionnaires ~ Karen McArdle and Kirsty Forrester

Interviews and Focus Groups ~ Karen McArdle, Kirsty Forrester, Ed Garrett

Narrative Inquiry ~ Karen McArdle

Collaborative and Participatory Approaches ~ Karen McArdle

Social Impact Studies ~ Ed Garrett

The Long Haul, Longitudinal Studies ~ Karen McArdle, Catherine Mckay

What everyone needs to know, Management Information Systems (MISs) ~ Sue Briggs, Kirsty Forrester, Karen McArdle

Using Others, Secondary Data ~ Kirsty Forrester and Karen McArdle

Knowing Ourselves, Self Evaluation ~ Sue Briggs, Karen McArdle

Part Three

Reflections, Valuing Community Work ~ Karen McArdle, Sue Briggs, Kirsty Forrester, Ed Garrett and Catherine McKay

Erscheinungsdatum	22.07.2020
Zusatzinfo	3 Tables, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-4394-8 / 1447343948
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-4394-3 / 9781447343943
Zustand	Neuware