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The field of #evalution has NEVER recognized a woman of color from the Americas among its theorists/founders, whether thru its prof assoc's theory awards program, flagship journal's oral histories, or sacred Evaluation Theory Tree
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The field of #evalution has NEVER recognized a woman of color from the Americas among its theorists/founders, whether thru its prof assoc's theory awards program, flagship journal's oral histories, or sacred Evaluation Theory Tree
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It has similarly NEVER formally recognized a person of ANY gender identity or expression who is indigenous to the Americas
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It has similarly NEVER formally recognized a person of ANY gender identity or expression who is indigenous to the Americas
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3/?
Numerous graduates of doc programs in #eval are shocked to learn AFTERWARDS that members of the global majority have been formally trained in evaluation at the doctoral level, publishing about it, practicing it & actively engaged in its US prof assoc since its inception.
Numerous graduates of doc programs in #eval are shocked to learn AFTERWARDS that members of the global majority have been formally trained in evaluation at the doctoral level, publishing about it, practicing it & actively engaged in its US prof assoc since its inception.
4/?
They learn thanks to the work of Hood & Hopson (2008), Thomas & Campbell (2020), and me (Shanker, 2019)
That is to say nothing of all those engaged in evaluative thinking thru other disciplines and ways of knowing that we also never learn about in doc programs
They learn thanks to the work of Hood & Hopson (2008), Thomas & Campbell (2020), and me (Shanker, 2019)
That is to say nothing of all those engaged in evaluative thinking thru other disciplines and ways of knowing that we also never learn about in doc programs
5/?
One sacred text in the #evalution community, which passes on its culture thru doc progs and elsewhere, is Evaluation Roots. It originated then developed the idea of an Evaluation Theory Tree, which includes no women of color from the USA & no one indigenous to the Americas
One sacred text in the #evalution community, which passes on its culture thru doc progs and elsewhere, is Evaluation Roots. It originated then developed the idea of an Evaluation Theory Tree, which includes no women of color from the USA & no one indigenous to the Americas
6/?
A new edition of Evaluation Roots is in the process of authorship/publication. It reinforces the idea that evaluation is white, w/ a few brown authors and topics now sprinkled in but w/ no substantive shift in the narrative & still no representation indigenous to the Americas
A new edition of Evaluation Roots is in the process of authorship/publication. It reinforces the idea that evaluation is white, w/ a few brown authors and topics now sprinkled in but w/ no substantive shift in the narrative & still no representation indigenous to the Americas
7/?
Keep in mind that these are US editions being discussed here. The supposedly "international" edition includes a grand total of ONE indigenous woman, Nan Wehipeihana, who would be the first to say too little, too late.
Keep in mind that these are US editions being discussed here. The supposedly "international" edition includes a grand total of ONE indigenous woman, Nan Wehipeihana, who would be the first to say too little, too late.
8/?
Only one woman of color/ indigenous woman--IN THE WORLD--merits mention on the sacred Evaluation Theory Tree?
Only one woman of color/ indigenous woman--IN THE WORLD--merits mention on the sacred Evaluation Theory Tree?
9/?
Seeing evaluation as white, especially in the face of evidence that it is not and has never been, hurts us all. It contributes to what is called "implicit" or "unconscious" bias.
Seeing evaluation as white, especially in the face of evidence that it is not and has never been, hurts us all. It contributes to what is called "implicit" or "unconscious" bias.
10/?
These are actually learned associations about racial hierarchies of superiority and inferiority, that are *implicit* in the repeated patterns of racial stratification that we see in every day life about who leads and who must be led.
These are actually learned associations about racial hierarchies of superiority and inferiority, that are *implicit* in the repeated patterns of racial stratification that we see in every day life about who leads and who must be led.
11/?
Contributing to this narrative does material damage to all evaluators, evaluated programs & especially participants in evaluated programs
Contributing to this narrative does material damage to all evaluators, evaluated programs & especially participants in evaluated programs
12/?
Program participants are already, by definition, disproportionately suffering the effects of white supremacist, capitalist, cis-hetero-patriarchal, abelist systems.
Program participants are already, by definition, disproportionately suffering the effects of white supremacist, capitalist, cis-hetero-patriarchal, abelist systems.
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Because evaluation is portrayed and perceived as white, white-led firms and white consultants continue to get a disproportionate number of government and philanthropic contracts for evaluation.
Because evaluation is portrayed and perceived as white, white-led firms and white consultants continue to get a disproportionate number of government and philanthropic contracts for evaluation.
14/?
They subsequently earn an income practicing in a way that fails to honor the humanity and agency of program participants and fails to look critically at what programs are doing from the perspective of reinforcing patterns of oppression. These evaluations shape our thinking.
They subsequently earn an income practicing in a way that fails to honor the humanity and agency of program participants and fails to look critically at what programs are doing from the perspective of reinforcing patterns of oppression. These evaluations shape our thinking.
15/?
Please disrupt this narrative and begin co-creating a counter-narrative of evaluation
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Please disrupt this narrative and begin co-creating a counter-narrative of evaluation
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16/End
Sign this Google Form demanding that Evaluation Roots & Guilford more generally amplify the voices of those whom evaluation otherizes, make amends for and reverse a century of exploitation, exclusion, marginalization & erasure.
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Sign this Google Form demanding that Evaluation Roots & Guilford more generally amplify the voices of those whom evaluation otherizes, make amends for and reverse a century of exploitation, exclusion, marginalization & erasure.
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Thank-you to the 18 folks who liked and/or re-tweeted this thread. I hope to see your names on the Google Form and I hope you share broadly!
Others:
Remember that your silence will not protect you.
If you're protecting your relationship with one or more authors/editors/publishers--regardless of your identity--you're protecting whiteness by prioritizing individual profit at the expense of the global majority.
Remember that your silence will not protect you.
If you're protecting your relationship with one or more authors/editors/publishers--regardless of your identity--you're protecting whiteness by prioritizing individual profit at the expense of the global majority.
This thread got long so I want to note here/ now that the Google Form did not create itself. It resulted from the labor of @alyannlopez, @c_camman, @NBPC1, @3rdcultureme, @AishaRios17, @work_with_libby, Sher Scott, and--yes--myself.
At my Oral Prelims, one of my committee members asked (as folks entrenched in dysfunctional systems always do): "What do you see as the solution?"
I said, "I see a movement."
I said, "I see a movement."
It will not start with those benefiting from the current system because...
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." (Frederick Douglass)
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." (Frederick Douglass)
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