| Session Title: Contested Terrains, Multipartiality and Interpersonal Validity: Engaging Multiple Voices, Views and Vantage Points for Inclusive Excellence and Social Justice |
| Think Tank Session 119 to be held in Huntington A on Wednesday, Nov 2, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM |
| Sponsored by the Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Hazel Symonette, University of Wisconsin, Madison, hsymonette@studentlife.wisc.edu |
| Abstract: Contested terrains live large in the emergent complexities of increasingly diverse, globally-interconnected communities. To honor our ethical responsibilities as evidence-grounded truth-seekers and truth-speakers, evaluators need to authentically engage our world's complexities by mindfully calibrating and cultivating capacities to be clear channels as *legitimized judgment-makers* and, thus, as privileged authorities. How do you discern your Forcefield of Preparedness and Readiness to activate truth-seeking processes, practices and decisions? In what ways can you--with responsible transparency and interpersonal validity-facilitate and support deliberative judgment-making where the judgment criteria and evidentiary rules are public, explicit, fair and appropriate from multiple stakeholder vantage points? Participants will start exploring these very complex issues in a multi-tiered deliberative forum. Private brainstorming is followed by dyad deliberations then quad-groupings (dyad-pairs). The session will close with individuals posting their top 2-3 insights for a Gallery Walk and culminate with full-community shout-outs as final harvest of our collective wisdom. |