CRITICAL DIALOGUE : ITS VALUE AND MEANING

• Today dialogue is a frequent used idea in the discourse of evaluation. Dialogue stands for an ambi-tion to involve different stakeholder in open and power-free exchange of opinions and ideas about what is evaluated. The aim with this article is to give an example on how to manage dialogue in practice. An evaluation case study is used to illustrate how the evaluators manage a dialogue in different phases of the evaluation process. To handle the sometimes-difficult situation with many different views on the subject, the evaluator developed different, sometimes new and innovative methods to make the exchange of ideas possible. The article shows that dialogue in evaluation need to be adjustable to different situations and need among the participants.

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Key-words: Critical incidents

democratic evaluation

metaphors

stakeholder participation

Socratic dialogue. Mälardalen Evaluation Academy.

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Mälardalens Utvärderingsakademi

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