Framing Anticolonialism in Evaluation: Bridging Decolonizing Methodologies and Culturally Responsive Evaluation
Background: Evaluation is grounded in academically imperialistic research methodologies, paradigms, and epistemologies, which have lasting effects on communities of study. Confronting Westernized evaluation's monoculturalism, scholars call for decolonization, to produce locally-determined, str...
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Background: Evaluation is grounded in academically imperialistic research methodologies, paradigms, and epistemologies, which have lasting effects on communities of study. Confronting Westernized evaluation's monoculturalism, scholars call for decolonization, to produce locally-determined, strengths-based, culturally-situated, and valid understandings. This endeavor is complicated, requiring a paradigm shift for Westernized evaluators.
Purpose: In this paper, we describe the anticolonial culturally responsive framework occurring in the intersections between culturally responsive (CRE) and decolonizing (DF) approaches. Anticolonialism honors decolonizing without displacing the authority of Indigeneity, simultaneously foregrounding the interweaving of evaluator, evaluand, and disciplinary culture. Interrogating academic imperialism through anticolonialism, confronts the social processes and cultural ideologies that produce and reproduce social inequality in evaluations.
Setting: Not applicable.
Data Collection and Analysis: We draw on scholars and scholarship who have advanced culturally responsive, decolonizing, and anticolonial evaluation and methodological fields.
Findings: The anticolonial culturally responsive framework is an invitation for evaluators trained in imperialistic Westernized approaches or who embody the colonial world through our race, language, knowledge, and culture. Our goal is not to displace the primacy and urgency of vitalizing Indigenous and decolonizing frameworks. Instead, we offer a tentative approach committed to pluriversality, justice, self-determination, and the possibility of collaboration between knowledge systems and knowers.
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| spelling | doaj.art-cdf61adabc2d4468ac21ad51770f5d882023-07-21T08:40:46ZengThe Evaluation Center at Western Michigan UniversityJournal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation1556-81802023-07-01194410.56645/jmde.v19i44.769Framing Anticolonialism in Evaluation: Bridging Decolonizing Methodologies and Culturally Responsive EvaluationLorien Jordan0Jori Hall1University of ArkansasUniversity of Georgia Background: Evaluation is grounded in academically imperialistic research methodologies, paradigms, and epistemologies, which have lasting effects on communities of study. Confronting Westernized evaluation's monoculturalism, scholars call for decolonization, to produce locally-determined, strengths-based, culturally-situated, and valid understandings. This endeavor is complicated, requiring a paradigm shift for Westernized evaluators. Purpose: In this paper, we describe the anticolonial culturally responsive framework occurring in the intersections between culturally responsive (CRE) and decolonizing (DF) approaches. Anticolonialism honors decolonizing without displacing the authority of Indigeneity, simultaneously foregrounding the interweaving of evaluator, evaluand, and disciplinary culture. Interrogating academic imperialism through anticolonialism, confronts the social processes and cultural ideologies that produce and reproduce social inequality in evaluations. Setting: Not applicable. Data Collection and Analysis: We draw on scholars and scholarship who have advanced culturally responsive, decolonizing, and anticolonial evaluation and methodological fields. Findings: The anticolonial culturally responsive framework is an invitation for evaluators trained in imperialistic Westernized approaches or who embody the colonial world through our race, language, knowledge, and culture. Our goal is not to displace the primacy and urgency of vitalizing Indigenous and decolonizing frameworks. Instead, we offer a tentative approach committed to pluriversality, justice, self-determination, and the possibility of collaboration between knowledge systems and knowers. https://journals.sfu.ca/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/769anticolonialdecolonizingculturally responsive |
| spellingShingle | Lorien Jordan Jori Hall Framing Anticolonialism in Evaluation: Bridging Decolonizing Methodologies and Culturally Responsive Evaluation Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation anticolonial decolonizing culturally responsive |
| title | Framing Anticolonialism in Evaluation: Bridging Decolonizing Methodologies and Culturally Responsive Evaluation |
| title_full | Framing Anticolonialism in Evaluation: Bridging Decolonizing Methodologies and Culturally Responsive Evaluation |
| title_fullStr | Framing Anticolonialism in Evaluation: Bridging Decolonizing Methodologies and Culturally Responsive Evaluation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Framing Anticolonialism in Evaluation: Bridging Decolonizing Methodologies and Culturally Responsive Evaluation |
| title_short | Framing Anticolonialism in Evaluation: Bridging Decolonizing Methodologies and Culturally Responsive Evaluation |
| title_sort | framing anticolonialism in evaluation bridging decolonizing methodologies and culturally responsive evaluation |
| topic | anticolonial decolonizing culturally responsive |
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