| Description |
ix, 223 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Practical social work |
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Practical social work.
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| Contents |
1. Evaluation in Practice: Our Approach -- 2. The Purposes of Evaluation -- 3. Facts, Truth and Values -- 4. Measuring Performance -- 5. Towards a Critical Approach to Evaluation -- 6. Designs for Critical Evaluation -- 7. Generating Evidence About Practice -- 8. Making Judgements and Effecting Change -- 9. Conclusion |
| Summary |
"Evaluating for Good Practice looks critically at this developing practice of evaluation. It places evaluation in the context of the changing political economy of social welfare, setting out concerns that evaluation has become a mechanism for managerial and financial control, rather than for change in the direction of equality and justice. Ways in which evaluation may contribute to the development of 'good' practice and reveal, or preferably inhibit, 'poor' or 'corrupt' practice are explored." "In developing a critical approach to evaluation, a distinction is made between generating evidence of the practice and making judgements about its value. Critical social science and postmodernist understandings of knowledge, truth and power are drawn upon; evidence is treated as problematic, contested and socially constructed, revealing not 'the truth' but 'truths' of practice." "This text addresses itself to the concerns and preoccupations of students and practitioners both in social work and the broader field of social welfare, encouraging them, amongst other things, to think creatively about ways in which evaluation may be democratised. Methods of research, and also dialogical practices and the arts, may ensure that all have an opportunity to tell the story of practice and to make a judgement of its value."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Great Britain |
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Welfare work |
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Great Britain |
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Welfare work |
| Notes |
At foot of cover: BASW |
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Bibliography: p197-215. _ Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Credits |
At foot of cover: BASW |
| Subject |
Social service -- Research.
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Social service -- Great Britain -- Evaluation.
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Social service -- Great Britain.
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Social workers -- Rating of -- Great Britain.
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| Author |
Hardiker, Pauline.
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British Association of Social Workers.
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| ISBN |
0333599675 |
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