Personalizing Evaluation
A Humanist Approach to Valuing
3rd Edition
Will be published approx. on 28. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-80592-436-4 (ISBN)
Description
Personalizing Evaluation: A Humanist Approach to Valuing, 3rd Edition proposes an inversion of Program and Person. Rather than portray a Program as a context to understand the person, we portray the individual's life and work as a context for understanding the significance of a Program. Personalizing Evaluation shows, with numerous examples from live data, how this is achieved.
This approach to "methodological individualism" also leads to a Humanist approach to evaluation following core Humanist principles of the right to self-determination, democratizing judgment, providing a basis for the justification of authority, and locating the autonomous individual within the moral embrace of the collective. Personalizing Evaluation, therefore, deals extensively with evaluation ethics and issues with validity. As is explored in a dedicated chapter, narrative emerged alongside European Humanism as the methodology of choice, and this underpins the case study approach of the book.
This approach to "methodological individualism" also leads to a Humanist approach to evaluation following core Humanist principles of the right to self-determination, democratizing judgment, providing a basis for the justification of authority, and locating the autonomous individual within the moral embrace of the collective. Personalizing Evaluation, therefore, deals extensively with evaluation ethics and issues with validity. As is explored in a dedicated chapter, narrative emerged alongside European Humanism as the methodology of choice, and this underpins the case study approach of the book.
More details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80592-436-4 (9781805924364)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Saville Kushner is Emeritus Professor of Educational Evaluation, Adjunct Professor at Drew University, USA, and Visiting Professor at Granada University, Spain. He has served as President of the UK Evaluation Society, and Regional Officer for Monitoring and Evaluation for UNICEF (Latin America).
Content
Chapter 1. Humanism, Institution and Program Evaluation
Chapter 2. Love and Death and Program Evaluation
Chapter 3. Narrative as the Methodology of Humanism
Chapter 4. Personalising Program Evaluation
Chapter 5. Evaluation and a Philosophy of Individualism
Chapter 6. Knowing Me, Knowing You:?Evaluation Interviewing
Chapter 7. To Have and Have Not: Critical Distance and Emotional Proximity
Chapter 8. Essences, Contexts and Transitions: Inside Case Study
Chapter 9. Ethical Space, Mortality and the Conduct of Evaluation
Chapter 10. People in Change
Chapter 2. Love and Death and Program Evaluation
Chapter 3. Narrative as the Methodology of Humanism
Chapter 4. Personalising Program Evaluation
Chapter 5. Evaluation and a Philosophy of Individualism
Chapter 6. Knowing Me, Knowing You:?Evaluation Interviewing
Chapter 7. To Have and Have Not: Critical Distance and Emotional Proximity
Chapter 8. Essences, Contexts and Transitions: Inside Case Study
Chapter 9. Ethical Space, Mortality and the Conduct of Evaluation
Chapter 10. People in Change