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MĀRAMATANGA (Enlightenment): A Creative Approach to Connecting Facilitation and Evaluation
Author(s) -
Pipi Kataraina
Publication year - 2016
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.20178
Subject(s) - aotearoa , facilitation , creativity , indigenous , enlightenment , narrative , sociology , meaning (existential) , pedagogy , engineering ethics , psychology , epistemology , social psychology , engineering , gender studies , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , neuroscience , psychotherapist , biology
This paper presents a personal narrative from an indigenous practitioner who uses creative facilitation methods as part of her evaluation work. The narrative describes examples of tools used in facilitation and evaluation, along with some of the lessons learned from integrating creativity and structured processes when working with indigenous people in Aotearoa (New Zealand). These lessons include that it is important to facilitate critical reflection from a cultural base; that through culturally grounded facilitation, evaluation can come to have meaning in culturally specific ways; and that creativity is what links facilitation and evaluation.