Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for Engaging Young People is a groundbreaking book that provides step-by-step, playful, and accessible activities that have proven effective and can be used by evaluators, educators, youth workers, researchers, funders, and children’s and human rights advocates in their efforts to more effectively engage young people.
Preface x
The Author xiii
Foreword by Naomi Ortiz xiv
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF YOUTH PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION
CHAPTER ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO YOUTH PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION 3
What Is Youth Participatory Evaluation? 6
The Benefits of Youth Participatory Evaluation 9
CHAPTER TWO: DEVELOPMENT, PLAY, AND PERFORMANCE 19
Development and Play 24
Transformation of Totalities and Development 26
PART TWO: DESIGNING AND CONDUCTING YOUTH PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION PROJECTS
CHAPTER THREE: STARTING YOUR OWN YPE PROJECT 35
Do Youth Really Want to Participate in Evaluation? 36
Which Youth Should Participate? 37
How Many Youth Should Be Involved? 38
Should Youth Be Compensated for Their Participation? 38
How Old Does Someone Have to Be to Participate? 39
What Is the Value of Engaging Youth of Different Ages and Capacities? 40
Can Young People Really Conduct Effective and Useful Evaluations That We Can Trust? 40
Who Should Facilitate the YPE Process? 41
What Happens When a YPE Project Is Conducted in a Program That Is Not Participatory? 41
How Do We Engage and Prepare Additional Stakeholderl£q
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