Evaluation as Reflective Practice

• Authors: Kubera Paulina
• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

Reflective practice has become an influential concept in the evaluation field. A greater use of reflective practice is advocated in reference to both evaluators’ own professional development, and as a means to enhance dialogue, stakeholders’ involvement and organisational learning in the evaluation process. The aim of the paper is to examine the evaluation endeavour from the latter perspective, i.e. to present evaluation approaches which offer the opportunity for collaborative reflective practice. To this end, evaluation as reflective practice is discussed at three levels: (1) the organisational level – the model of single, double and triple-loop learning is discussed in reference to formative, summative and developmental evaluation, (2) the evaluator’s level – different roles performed by the evaluator are considered from the point of view of promoting collaborative reflective practice, and (3) the broader socio-political level, in relation to the concept of civil society, as evaluation can contribute not only to a greater rigour and effectiveness of public spending but to social empowerment, to appreciating diversity or building trust (improving democratic policy-making).

Keywords

EN

evaluation; reflective practice; organisational learning; evaluator’s roles; civil society

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Problemy Zarządzania
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 6/2018 (80), t.2
• Pages: 23-38

Dates

online

2019-01-08

Contributors

author

Kubera Paulina

• Poznań University of Technology, Faculty of Management Engineering, Chair of Entrepreneurship and Business Communication

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Identifiers

ISSN

10.7172/1644-9584.80.2

DOI

1644-9584