2018
DOI: 10.3138/cjpe.31106
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Expanding the Role of Digital Photographs in Evaluation Practice: Documenting, Sense-Making, and Imagining

Abstract: Program stakeholders and evaluators routinely generate and share digital photographs. Three frameworks for using photographs in evaluation practice are discussed: documenting social change, facilitating sense-making, and inspiring and imagining social change. These are rooted in scholarship from arts-informed inquiry and visual sociology and anthropology. Using this framework, a review of existing literature demonstrates an extensive use of photographs for documentation and a growing use of photographs for sen… Show more

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“…In addition to developing a quality evaluation that responded to the guidelines provided by the client and the local setting, these theoretical approaches supported efforts to describe the views and experiences of the programme from the perspectives of a variety of stakeholders. We began to utilize digital photographs as a key data source (see Kallemeyn, 2018), in addition to a variety of other data sources. The photographs represented activities, outputs and outcomes in the logic model, and also helped stakeholders imagine what change was possible.…”
Section: Evaluation Approach and Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition to developing a quality evaluation that responded to the guidelines provided by the client and the local setting, these theoretical approaches supported efforts to describe the views and experiences of the programme from the perspectives of a variety of stakeholders. We began to utilize digital photographs as a key data source (see Kallemeyn, 2018), in addition to a variety of other data sources. The photographs represented activities, outputs and outcomes in the logic model, and also helped stakeholders imagine what change was possible.…”
Section: Evaluation Approach and Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%