Personalizing Evaluation

<p><em>Personalizing Evaluation: A Humanist Approach to Valuing, 3</em>^<em>rd</em><em> Edition </em><span>proposes an inversion of Program and Person. Rather than portray a Program as a context to understand the person, we portray the individual's life and work as a context for understanding the significance of a Program. </span><em>Personalizing Evaluation </em><span>shows, with numerous examples from live data, how this is achieved.</span></p><p><span>This approach to "methodological individualism" also leads to a Humanist approach to evaluation following core Humanist principles of the right to self-determination, democratizing judgment, providing a basis for the justification of authority, and locating the autonomous individual within the moral embrace of the collective. </span><em>Personalizing Evaluation</em><span>, therefore, deals extensively with evaluation ethics and issues with validity. As is explored in a dedicated chapter, narrative emerged alongside European Humanism as the methodology of choice, and this underpins the case study approach of the book</span></p>