A Dialogical, Story-Based Evaluation Tool: The Most Significant Change Technique

Dart, Jessica

doi:10.1016/s1098-2140(03)00024-9

Cited by 184 publications

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“…[79] The second theme conceptualized storytelling as a communication tool promoting sense-making amidst increasingly complex human interactions such as culture, organizations, and social movements. [80][81][82] Another way that storytelling promotes sense-making is through the pairing of stories and statistics. Statistical evidence may help to tell an effective story [83] but it is also key to the decision about whether use of a specific story should even be considered, [84] such as to coax imaginations or challenge commonly held beliefs.…”

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The storied mind: A meta-narrative review exploring the capacity of stories to foster humanism in health care

Rose

Chakraborty

Mason-Lai

et al. 2015

JHA

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Objective: Healthcare organizations are increasingly engaging the voice of patients and families through storytelling initiatives in hopes that this will yield compassionate and humanistic outcomes. To date, very little research is available that directly guides and justifies storytelling initiatives as a mechanism for promoting humanistic culture shifts in healthcare. This review aimed to uncover diverse research and evidence on how storytelling can be utilized to promote humanistic shifts in healthcare organizations. Methods: A meta-narrative review and analysis was undertaken including qualitative, quantitative, theoretical, and conceptual papers. Searches were restricted to English Language journals, and no time frame restrictions were made. A literature assessment form was created to guide the review using a consistent taxonomy to appraise each paper. Analysis was done in two-stages: firstly, identifying emergent themes within each research discipline; secondly, comparing and contrasting themes from the different disciplines. Results: A total of 115 papers were identified for review resulting from the literature review protocol. Eighty-three papers were included in the final review: 48 papers from Healthcare/Medicine combined, 28 from Business, 14 from Education, 5 from Organizational Development and 19 from Humanities (inclusive of Psychology and Communications). There were three key findings: 1) Storytelling promotes sense-making while also perpetuating bias; 2) Stories are uniquely primed to elicit empathy and compassion; 3) Story listening and how stories are interacted with by the listener are key considerations for organizations aiming to shift culture. Conclusions: This review solidifies storytelling as a mechanism suited to furthering humanistic practices in healthcare while contributing new knowledge in support of developing policies, strategies and research initiatives that account for how stories are understood and the processes that encourage reflection and interaction by listeners.

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The storied mind: A meta-narrative review exploring the capacity of stories to foster humanism in health care

Rose

Chakraborty

Mason-Lai

et al. 2015

JHA

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“…The experience to date suggests that policy makers should, at the very least, carefully assess the expectations they place on community or collaborative bodies to perform learning tasks, particularly the scope and detail of monitoring and evaluation that can and should be deployed (Dart and Davies 2003). Any community-driven data gathering processes to establish baselines and to demonstrate intermediate outcomes in adaptive processes will require that sufficient support is provided (Karkkainen 2003).…”

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Adaptive governance and managing resilience to natural hazards

Djalante

Holley

Thomalla

2011

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

239

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The increasing frequency, intensity, and severity of natural hazards is one of the most pressing global environmental change problems. From the local to the global level, governments and civil society need to increase resilience to these hazards. Despite what is now a very sizeable literature on designing governance systems to produce resilience, a substantial gap in the natural hazards scholarship remains because most studies have lacked grounding in comparable theories on governing for resilience. This article contributes to interdisciplinary research on the conceptual understanding of the interlinkages of adaptive governance (AG), resilience, and disaster risk reduction (DRR). Through better understanding of diversity of terminology, terms, and characteristics, we take a step forward towards mutual learning and intellectual experimentation between the three concepts. Our review shows that there are four characteristics of AG that are important to help increase resilience to natural hazards. These are polycentric and multilayered institutions, participation and collaboration, self-organization and networks, and learning and innovation. The article examines the development, tradeoffs, and benefits that arise from the implementation of the AG characteristics, and reviews their influence on resilience. Hazard and disaster case studies are then examined to see how each AG characteristic is viewed and implemented in disaster contexts. Based on this analysis, the contributions of AG to the DRR literature are identified, before outlining the implications for theory and further research.

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“…Paris Declaration principles such as 'ownership' and 'mutual responsibility' have a strong participatory flavour as does the overall philosophy of 'partnership' between donors and 'partner countries'. Development evaluation has expressed similar values through methods such as Participatory Rapid Assessment, Participatory Action Research, Most Significant Change (Dart and Davies 2003) etc. These approaches relate to IE, even if only indirectly.…”

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