Evaluation as Reflective Practice

Kubera, Paulina

doi:10.7172/1644-9584.80.2

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“…In contrast to traditional intervention designs where most learning happens after completing the intervention, our ndings point to the bene ts of operating through ongoing iterations and re exive practice in action rather than solely on action (Schön, 2017) to ensure constant learning and feedback to professional stakeholders and citizens. Re exive practice is considered highly bene cial and perhaps essential in responding to complex and uid environments (Janzen et al, 2017;Kubera, 2019;Quinn Patton, 2011). In TCD it was a foundation in the partnership for maintaining a creative environment, which was always prepared to identify new solutions to pressing community challenges.…”

Section: Navigating Complexity -Organization As Keymentioning

confidence: 99%

Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes: Experiencing and navigating complexity in a community-based health promotion initiative in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Copenhagen, Denmark

Termansen

Bloch

Tørslev

et al. 2022

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As a response to the complexity of reducing health inequity there has been a rise in community-based health promotion interventions adhering to the principles of complexity thinking. Such interventions often work with adaptive practice and constitute themselves in complex webs of collaborations between multiple stakeholders. However, few efforts have been made to articulate how complexity is experienced by stakeholders or can be addressed in practice. This study explores how partners experience and navigate complexity in the partnership behind Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes (TCD), a community-based intervention addressing health and social development in the disadvantaged neighborhood of Tingbjerg in urban Copenhagen. The study is based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the local community including participant observations and 9 in-depth interviews with key partner representatives. Findings show that complexity in TCD can be characterized by unpredictability in actions and outcomes, undefined purpose and direction, and differing organizational logics. Factors that support partners’ navigation in complexity include connectivity, embracing a flexible intervention framework, autonomy, and quick responsiveness. The study showcases the interdependency between the intervention and the context of the disadvantaged neighborhood of Tingbjerg and encourages stakeholders and researchers to embrace the messiness of complexity, and to pay attention to ways through which messiness and unpredictability can be handled.

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Section: Navigating Complexity -Organization As Keymentioning

confidence: 99%

Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes: Experiencing and navigating complexity in a community-based health promotion initiative in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Copenhagen, Denmark

Termansen

Bloch

Tørslev

et al. 2022

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“…We think of evaluation as an individual and collective reflective practice (Guajardo et al., 2020; Kubera, 2019; Tovey & Archibald, 2022) which requires collective commitment and deliberation to come to an understanding about what's working, what's not working, and how to move forward in our practice accordingly. Evaluation has a documented history of harm (Shanker & Antony, 2020), which we argue is at least somewhat related to evaluators’ ineffectiveness at centering the human component of their practice.…”

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Explicitly integrating interpersonal skills in the evaluation curriculum

Tovey,

Smith,

Linnell

et al. 2023

New Drctns Evaluation

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Interpersonal skills are an essential element of evaluators’ work, particularly when evaluators aim to affect the understanding and use of evaluation to make changes in the programs and policies we are evaluating. In this chapter, we provide a brief background on interpersonal skills in the evaluation literature, situating these competencies as essential in making evaluators facilitators of change, and highlight evaluation education's lack of explicit training in interpersonal skills. We then share our experiences with a standalone course for evaluators on interpersonal skill development. We conclude with insights into how evaluation educators can integrate activities focused on developing interpersonal skills into their own evaluation courses.

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Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes: experiencing and navigating complexity in a community-based health promotion initiative in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in Copenhagen, Denmark

et al. 2023

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As a response to the complexity of reducing health inequity there has been a rise in community-based health promotion interventions adhering to the principles of complexity thinking. Such interventions often work with adaptive practice and constitute themselves in complex webs of collaborations between multiple stakeholders. However, few efforts have been made to articulate how complexity can be navigated and addressed by stakeholders in practice. This study explores how partners experience and navigate complexity in the partnership behind Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes (TCD), a community-based intervention addressing health and social development in the disadvantaged neighborhood of Tingbjerg in urban Copenhagen. The study provides important insights on the role of context and how it contributes complexity in community-based health promotion.The study is based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the local community including participant observations and 9 in-depth interviews with key partner representatives. Findings show that complexity in TCD can be characterized by unpredictability in actions and outcomes, undefined purpose and direction, and differing organizational logics. Factors that support partners’ navigation in complexity include connectivity, embracing a flexible intervention framework, autonomy, and quick responsiveness. The study showcases the interdependency between the intervention and the context of the disadvantaged neighborhood of Tingbjerg and encourages stakeholders and researchers to embrace the messiness of complexity, and to pay attention to ways through which messiness and unpredictability can be handled.

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Evaluation as Reflective Practice

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes: Experiencing and navigating complexity in a community-based health promotion initiative in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Copenhagen, Denmark

Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes: Experiencing and navigating complexity in a community-based health promotion initiative in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Copenhagen, Denmark

Explicitly integrating interpersonal skills in the evaluation curriculum

Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes: experiencing and navigating complexity in a community-based health promotion initiative in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in Copenhagen, Denmark

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