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Critical evaluation and cultural values
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This paper offers a critical perspective on the ‘norms’ and ‘forms’ of evaluation
in relation to participatory arts in general, and digital storytelling in particular.
The evaluation of arts-based community interventions, presents numerous
challenges and opportunities. These include balancing the economic and political
imperatives of funding bodies with the desire to establish recognition and
reputation with a like-minded community of interest, according to shared notions
of practice, identity and value. Evaluation is often reduced to monitoring,
evidence gathering and advocacy in order to meet the expectations of funders and
commissioners. However, evaluation can be a genuine opportunity for critical
reflection on the value of a project for all partners and participants. Drawing on
examples, this paper will examine the relationship between the values that
underpin a project, organization or programme of work and how they are they can
be incorporated (or not) into an evaluation of its success.
Examining the EU funded projects 'Extending Creative Practice' and 'Silver
Stories', the paper will look at how the stories and visual materials produced
through these projects interplay within an evaluation context which might reach
beyond the commissioned framework. Addressing issues of translation in multipartner
projects, the paper also aims to understand the processes involved in
unpicking the local, national and transnational contexts of these visual arts
projects.
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Citation
Rooke, A. & Levy, C. (2015). Critical Evaluation and Cultural Values. Res Net Health 1, ss11.
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Instituto Politécnico de Leiria