Yoland Wadsworth

Building in Research and Evaluation

Human inquiry for living systems

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Produktbeschreibung

Pioneer researcher Yoland Wadsworth offers a fresh and unique perspective on a core question. How to do research that truly enables health and human service professionals and organisations to do their work effectively?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9781742375403
• ISBN-10: 1742375405
• Artikelnr.: 60001624

Autorenporträt

Yoland Wadsworth is a path-breaker in methodology and use of social research, evaluation and complex systems thinking in health, community and human services. She is author of the bestselling Do It Yourself Social Research and Everyday Evaluation on the Run. She is Adjunct Professor, Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University, and Principal Fellow, McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD
PREFACE
DEDICATION
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PROLOGUE
1. SOME INTRODUCTORY FOUNDATIONS FOR BUILDING ON
2. LIVING SYSTEMS
3. CYCLES OF RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND INQUIRY FOR LIFE
4. MORE (TRULY) LIVING HUMAN SERVICES
5. EXAMPLES OF BUILDING IN INQUIRY FOR LIVING HUMAN SERVICE SYSTEMS
6. CONCLUDING WORDS
APPENDICES
Appendix 1. How to deliver negative evaluation results constructively
Appendix 2. Key drivers of organisational excellence
Appendix 3. What s the Myers Briggs indicator got to do with it?
Appendix 4. An example of use of the sequence of whole cycle research
questions: in health
promotion practice
Appendix 5. Other integral theories of change
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
REFERENCES
INDEX