Evaluating Education in Greenland. How is Power Exercised through Evaluation Models?
Education plays an unquestionable role in society. Various sociological models of what education does, how it works and the problems involved explain why it constitutes a battleground for potential social and political conflict. How education is measured or evaluated is equally conflict material. In...
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ftunivgoetebojs:oai:ojs.ub.gu.se:article/1707 2023-10-09T21:51:56+02:00 Evaluating Education in Greenland. How is Power Exercised through Evaluation Models? Watt Boolsen, Merete 2013-03-05 application/pdf https://ojs.ub.gu.se/index.php/sjpa/article/view/1707 eng eng University of Gothenburg https://ojs.ub.gu.se/index.php/sjpa/article/view/1707/1494 https://ojs.ub.gu.se/index.php/sjpa/article/view/1707 Offentlig förvaltning - Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration; Vol 16, No 3 (2012): Special Issue: Evaluation; 65-82 Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration; Vol 16, No 3 (2012): Special Issue: Evaluation; 65-82 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Peer-reviewed Article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2013 ftunivgoetebojs 2023-09-10T13:35:00Z Education plays an unquestionable role in society. Various sociological models of what education does, how it works and the problems involved explain why it constitutes a battleground for potential social and political conflict. How education is measured or evaluated is equally conflict material. In the present article, traditional evaluation models are applied in a somewhat atypical context: Greenland. Here, the government launched an ambitious education reform in 2005 aimed at increasing both the level and quality of education. The results of the evaluations have been ‘disappointing’ thus far – the reform has failed. The article begins by presenting different evaluation models applied in the Greenlandic context (program and summative evaluations). Second, a discussion of findings covering the initial period 2005‒10. Finally, a change in evaluation strategy is suggested with Michael Quinn Patton’s developmental evaluation model. Is it fair, relevant or constructive to examine education in Greenlandic society through the evaluation lens from a European society? Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland greenlandic Open Journal Systems at University of Gothenburg Greenland |
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Education plays an unquestionable role in society. Various sociological models of what education does, how it works and the problems involved explain why it constitutes a battleground for potential social and political conflict. How education is measured or evaluated is equally conflict material. In the present article, traditional evaluation models are applied in a somewhat atypical context: Greenland. Here, the government launched an ambitious education reform in 2005 aimed at increasing both the level and quality of education. The results of the evaluations have been ‘disappointing’ thus far – the reform has failed. The article begins by presenting different evaluation models applied in the Greenlandic context (program and summative evaluations). Second, a discussion of findings covering the initial period 2005‒10. Finally, a change in evaluation strategy is suggested with Michael Quinn Patton’s developmental evaluation model. Is it fair, relevant or constructive to examine education in Greenlandic society through the evaluation lens from a European society? |
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Evaluating Education in Greenland. How is Power Exercised through Evaluation Models? |
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Evaluating Education in Greenland. How is Power Exercised through Evaluation Models? |
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Offentlig förvaltning - Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration; Vol 16, No 3 (2012): Special Issue: Evaluation; 65-82 Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration; Vol 16, No 3 (2012): Special Issue: Evaluation; 65-82 |
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