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Falling forward: Lessons learned from critical reflection on an evaluation process with a prisoner reentry program
Author(s) -
Hooper Barbara
Publication year - 2010
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.336
Subject(s) - formative assessment , reentry , falling (accident) , process (computing) , power (physics) , reflection (computer programming) , psychology , evaluation methods , sociology , computer science , mathematics education , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , psychiatry , reliability engineering , programming language , operating system
A formative evaluation of life‐skills learning modules with men and women in a residential prisoner reentry program where careful attention was given to voice, power, and engagement, is described and analyzed. The author reflects on the evaluation process through the critical theory lens of “being self‐critical can illuminate how practices maintain oppressive conditions.” Questions about whose voices remained dominant and whose power was suppressed are discussed. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc., and the American Evaluation Association.