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Panel

Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation

People-Centered Evaluation in Theory and Action

Stream: International Evaluation, Diversity, and Specific Populations

Friday, October 25, 2024
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM PST
Location: E144
Abstract Information: This panel will share the current effort made in building a special issue of the New Directions for Evaluation to extend the culturally responsive and social justice approach, enacting a theoretical and practical conversation on how People-Centered Evaluation illuminates ways to advance social justice in both investing in communities and advancing transformative frameworks in evaluation in the interplay of social justice, racial equity, context, and cultures of underserved communities. People-centered evaluation aims to understand and validate people's lives (Bledsoe, 2021). It focuses on the needs of those most impacted in the evaluative context by recognizing their power dynamics, context, history, and systems and how these play a part in people’s participation in and view of the evaluation or research. In this panel, we will share three papers that extend the understanding of people-centered evaluation, using two practitioner papers and one theoretical one. From the evaluation-oriented work done in the SEAS Islands Alliance, the panel shares how the backbone team uses people-centered evaluation to steward multiple teams in the Alliance. The research team applies the people-centered approach by centering a humanized design to building relationships with young islanders participating in SEAS to open self-authorship ways to understand URM identity in STEM. On a large scale, the practitioners will respond to Dr. Bledsoe, who will offer a theoretical genealogy to establish the distinct framework of PCE based on CRE and CREE-informed/inspired approaches.