'Capturing the magic': grassroots perspectives on evaluating open youth work
'Capturing the magic': grassroots perspectives on evaluating open youth work
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“捕捉魔力”：评估开放青年工作的草根视角
DOI：
10.1080/13676261.2022.2150540
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
De St Croix T
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作者：
De St Croix T
青年工作的非正式和以青年为中心的性质给评价工作带来了挑战，而在新自由主义的青年服务结构调整背景下，衡量、市场价值和监督日益占据主导地位，加剧了这些挑战。本文基于Griffiths（2012，Why Joy in Education Is an Issue for Socially Just Policies.Journal of Education Policy 27（5）：655-670）关于重视教育内在贡献的哲学论点，从而将评估概念化为包含比测量结果更多的内容。它报告了一项为期三年的定性研究的结果，在八个开放的青年工作设置在英格兰，调查了143名青年人，青年工作者和决策者的观点，在青年工作的评价。虽然青年人和青年工作者经常参加他们认为有意义的评价，但一些衡量影响的方法被认为过于正式、侵入性、不敏感和繁琐。文章认为，评价和问责过程必须是实践知情，以青年为中心，反压迫。它建议以参与和协作方式制定各种评价方法和办法，“捕捉青年工作的魔力”，同时能够进一步反思和发展做法。
Youth work’s informal and youth-centred nature raises challenges for evaluation, challenges that are intensified by the growing dominance of measurement, market values and surveillance in the context of the neoliberal restructuring of youth services. This article builds on Griffiths’ (2012, Why Joy in Education Is an Issue for Socially Just Policies.Journal of Education Policy27 (5): 655–670) philosophical argument for valuing the intrinsic contribution of education, thus conceptualising evaluation as encompassing more than measuring outcomes. It reports the findings of a three-year qualitative study in eight open youth work settings in England that investigated the perspectives of 143 young people, youth workers and policy makers on evaluation in youth work. While young people and youth workers had often participated in evaluations they found meaningful, some approaches to impact measurement were experienced as too formal, intrusive, insensitive and burdensome. The article argues that evaluation and accountability processes must be practice-informed, youth-centred, and anti-oppressive. It recommends the participatory and collaborative development of diverse methods and approaches to evaluation that ‘capture the magic’ of youth work while enabling further reflection and development of practice.