Values and Culture in Evaluative Thinking: Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand

Wehipeihana, Nan; McKegg, Kate

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“…The work in volved is a journey full of complexity and uncertainty. It can be exhilarating and also deeply challenging because our dominant knowledge systems and structures are powerful and resistant to allowing the necessary time and space for equitable co-existence of other knowledges (Wehipeihana & McKegg, 2018).…”

Section: Becoming a Useful Allymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The use of externally imposed frameworks, criteria, and methods, and the resulting judgments, have had little meaning or value for Indigenous com munities; worse, they have perpetuated harmful systems and structures. How we cultivate evaluation practice that is able to respectfully and humbly acknowledge, value, and honour diverse knowledge traditions and paradigms is still, for the most part, an aspiration yet to be realized ( Wehipeihana & McKegg, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This ideological work points white settler evaluators toward the need to recognize and acknowledge Indig enous knowledge systems and ways of knowing. And it challenges white settler evaluators to consider the adequacy of our Western theories, frameworks, and knowledge for all evaluation work done for, with, or by Indigenous people (Mc-Kegg, 2013;Wehipeihana & McKegg, 2018).…”

Section: Decolonization Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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White Privilege and the Decolonization Work Needed in Evaluation to Support Indigenous Sovereignty and Self-Determination

McKegg¹

2019

Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation

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This paper builds on a keynote paper presented at the 2018 Canadian Evaluation Society annual conference by Kate McKegg, a Pākehā, non-Indigenous evaluator from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Kate reflects on the concept and implications for Indigenous people of white privilege in colonized Western nations. She discusses some of the ways in which white privilege and its consequences play out in the field of evaluation, perpetuating colonial sentiments and practices that maintain and reinforce inequities and injustice and potentially threaten the social justice aspirations of the field. Kate argues that those with white privilege have much work to do, unpacking and understanding their privilege if they are to have any chance of playing a role in deconstructing and dismantling the power structures that hold colonizing systems in place. She suggests that for evaluators to be effective allies for Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, they must undertake ideological, cultural, emotional, and constitutional work. This work will be tough and scary and is not for the faint hearted. But it is vital to unlocking the potential transformation that can come from just and peaceful relationships that affirm and validate Indigenous peoples’ ways of knowing and being.

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Section: Becoming a Useful Allymentioning

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Section: Decolonization Workmentioning

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White Privilege and the Decolonization Work Needed in Evaluation to Support Indigenous Sovereignty and Self-Determination

McKegg¹

2019

Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation

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“…Kaupapa Māori (research for the benefit of Māori by Māori) is influenced by Māori culture, history, indigenous knowledge (Mātauranga), language (te reo), values, and worldview [67,68,70,71,74-76]. The proverb “kaua e takahia te mana o te tangata” (do not trample on “mana” or dignity and status) highlights the guiding principle of Kaupapa Māori, to respect the mana not only of individuals but also of the Māori culture, values, and beliefs [67,68,77].…”

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YouthCHAT as a Primary Care E-Screening Tool for Mental Health Issues Among Te Tai Tokerau Youth: Protocol for a Co-Design Study

Martel¹,

Darragh²,

Lawrence³

et al. 2019

JMIR Res Protoc

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BackgroundIn New Zealand (NZ), 1 in 4 adolescents is affected by mental health issues (eg, depression and anxiety) and engages in risk behaviors (eg, harmful drinking and substance abuse), with rates among Māori youth being significantly higher. The majority of NZ secondary school students visit their local primary health care providers (PHPs) at least annually, yet most do not seek help for mental health and risk behavior (MHB) concerns. While youth think it acceptable to discuss sensitive issues during a consultation with their PHPs, unless problems are severe, such conversations are not initiated by PHPs. Early intervention for MHB concerns can prevent long-term health and well-being issues. However, this relies on the early identification of developing problems and youth being offered and accepting help. YouthCHAT is an electronic, multi-item screening tool developed in 2016 to assess MHB concerns among youth. YouthCHAT is completed before a consultation with the PHP, who can access a summary report straight away. A help question allows young people to identify issues that need addressing. A resource pack uses stepped care pathways to guide providers to use appropriate brief interventions.ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore the utility, feasibility, and acceptability of YouthCHAT when tailored for use with youth in primary care settings with large Māori populations. Objectives of the study are to evaluate the implementation of YouthCHAT in nurse-led youth clinics, school-based clinics, and general practice in Te Tai Tokerau (Northland, NZ); to develop a framework for the scaling up of YouthCHAT across further settings; to assess health provider and youth acceptability of the tool; to improve screening rates for mental health and help-seeking behavior; to enable early identification of emerging problems; and to improve brief intervention delivery.MethodsUsing a bicultural mixed-methods co-design approach, 3 phases over a 3-year period will provide an iterative evaluation of the utility, feasibility, and acceptability of YouthCHAT, aiming to create a framework for wider-scale rollout and implementation.ResultsRecruitment for the first phase began in September 2018. YouthCHAT was implemented at the first site in October 2018 and is expected to be at a further two sites in late January to early February 2019. The study is due for completion at the end of 2021.ConclusionsYouthCHAT has potential as a user-friendly, time efficient, and culturally safe screening tool for early detection of MHB issues in NZ youth. The resource pack assists the clinician to provide appropriate interventions for emerging and developed youth mental health and lifestyle issues. Involving input from community providers, users, and stakeholders will ensure that modifiable elements of YouthCHAT are tailored to meet the health needs specific to each context and will have a positive influence on future mental, physical, and social outcomes for NZ youth.International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)PRR1-10.2196/12108

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“…Indeed, sustainability is a critical issue for the future of our civilization not just for the future of evaluation. I would have liked to see some inclusion of the work and voices of indigenous evaluators, who are, in many ways, leading the charge on this issue globally (e.g., Anderson et al, 2012; Wehipeihana, McKegg, Thompson, & Pipi, 2016).…”

Section: Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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Book Review: The Future of Evaluation: Global Trends, New Challenges, Shared Perspectives

Campbell‐Patton

Patton

2017

American Journal of Evaluation

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, joins and contributes to an important commitment of any profession that aspires to have a vibrant and relevant future, namely, to think about, analyze, speculate on, prepare for, and even plan for that future. Articles on the future of evaluation in AJE (including Evaluation Practice, the predecessor to AJE) span nearly three decades. The first that we can find was publication in Evaluation Practice of an American Evaluation Association presidential keynote on "The Future and Evaluation" (Patton, 1988). Wye and Sonnichsen (1992) analyzed and speculated on the future of program evaluation in the federal government. A special issue of Evaluation Practice was put together by Editor Midge Smith (1994) entitled "Review of the Past, Preview of the Future." Mel Mark and Midge Smith coedited a follow-up special issue of AJE in 2001 that featured soothsaying by many prominent evaluation scholars. Other notable gazes into evaluation's future include Donaldson's (2013) edited volume on The Future of Evaluation in Society: A Tribute to Michael Scriven, reviewed in AJE (Mabry, 2016). What stands out in this latest book on evaluation's future is the decidedly global perspective that runs through the volume, including contributions from evaluators in Africa, Asia, Australasia, North and South America, and Europe. Some prominent trends are not discussed: the global evaluation network of aboriginal and indigenous evaluators and data visualization trends being two prominent examples. Nor did these evaluation futurists foresee the explicitly anti-intellectual, antiempirical, antidata, misinformation, big lie, and fundamentally antievaluation phenomenon represented by the presidential election of Donald Trump. Review The Future of Evaluation is an edited volume based on a 2012 international conference held on the occasion of the 10-year jubilee of the Center for Evaluation at Saarland University, Germany. The book has 24 chapters organized into six parts that focus on general topic areas such as the role of evaluation in society, global trends in evaluation as a profession, new challenges for evaluation, and perspectives on evaluation's future, among others. There isn't space to review all 24 chapters, so we will provide an overview of the book while spotlighting some insights that stood out to us. (The table of contents, with sample chapters, is on the publisher's web page, provided above.) We have written this review together to offer the perspectives of an experienced evaluator (Michael has 45 years evaluation experience) and a relative

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Values and Culture in Evaluative Thinking: Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand

Cited by 27 publications

References 17 publications

White Privilege and the Decolonization Work Needed in Evaluation to Support Indigenous Sovereignty and Self-Determination

White Privilege and the Decolonization Work Needed in Evaluation to Support Indigenous Sovereignty and Self-Determination

YouthCHAT as a Primary Care E-Screening Tool for Mental Health Issues Among Te Tai Tokerau Youth: Protocol for a Co-Design Study

Book Review: The Future of Evaluation: Global Trends, New Challenges, Shared Perspectives

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