| Session Title: Contextualizing Your Inner Evaluator: Embracing Other World Views |
| Skill-Building Workshop 387 to be held in Sebastian Section I4 on Thursday, Nov 12, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM |
| Sponsored by the Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Alice Kawakami, University of Hawaii at Manoa, alicek@hawaii.edu |
| Morris Lai, University of Hawaii, lai@hawaii.edu |
| Donna Mertens, Gallaudet University, donna.mertens@gallaudet.edu |
| Hazel L Symonette, University of Wisconsin Madison, symonette@bascom.wisc.edu |
| Deana Wagner, Johns Hopkins University, dwagner@jhsph.edu |
| Abstract: This session will assist evaluators who are not residents or cultural citizens of the context where they may be conducting evaluations. We will provide opportunities for dialogue with individuals from three diverse communities and focus on evaluation undertaken with approaches that honor and respect world views of community members. In addition to a general overview of strategies addressing hierarchies of power and privilege, we will provide opportunities for participants to engage in a small group activities that will explore world views related to decolonizing evaluation, transformative evaluation, and methods for cultivating self as responsive instrument. Each small group will describe an evaluation opportunity in a "non-mainstream" community and explore strategies appropriate to that context. The session will end with the presenters' and participants' debrief of the process and sharing of challenges and suggestions to guide evaluators' future endeavors. |