Premium
Truth, Beauty, and Justice: Conceptualizing House's Framework for Evaluation in Community‐Based Settings
Author(s) -
Bledsoe Katrina L.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
new directions for evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1534-875X
pISSN - 1097-6736
DOI - 10.1002/ev.20086
Subject(s) - beauty , credibility , economic justice , sociology , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , common ground , multiculturalism , social psychology , epistemology , management science , engineering ethics , psychology , public relations , pedagogy , law , political science , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering , economics
The goal of this chapter is to discuss House's theoretical framework of truth, beauty, and justice and its relationship to community‐based evaluation and programming. Within this chapter, each area of House's triad is addressed separately. To further illustrate these points, aspects such as community systems, credibility of information, multicultural validity, coherence in reporting, and social justice are discussed. Throughout this discussion, examples highlighting the author's work with community‐based evaluations, particularly in communities that are hard to reach, underserved, etc., are provided to ground these concepts in practice. Finally, the author poses questions about evaluation practice, validity, and social justice.