A Look at Power Issues in Collaborative Program Evaluations under Michel Foucault's Conception of Power-Knowledge

Autor/inn/en	Torres-Cuello, Maria Alejandra; Pinzon-Salcedo, Luis Arturo
Titel	A Look at Power Issues in Collaborative Program Evaluations under Michel Foucault's Conception of Power-Knowledge
Quelle	In: American Journal of Evaluation, 44 (2023) 3, S.424-446 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Torres-Cuello, Maria Alejandra) ORCID (Pinzon-Salcedo, Luis Arturo)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1098-2140
DOI	10.1177/10982140211060311
Schlagwörter	Power Structure; Program Evaluation; Cooperation; Stakeholders; Evaluators; Epistemology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Co-operation; Kooperation; Erkenntnistheorie
Abstract	Power has always been an element of the program evaluation field, however, it has traditionally been attributed a negative connotation. With that in mind, power is seen as a force possessed to some extent by different stakeholders that can be imposed over others, and by which certain views, ideas, and decisions can be adopted. Given that program evaluation has a political character in which power is always present, we seek to explore a different notion of this concept. In this paper, we intend to take advantage of Michel Foucault's ideas to explore power in the program evaluation field. We illustrate the introduction of these concepts in collaborative evaluations and in doing so, we also explore power as well as power-knowledge relations, adopting a transformative perspective on power. The introduction of these concepts in collaborative evaluation is useful in illustrating how they can be used in non-collaborative evaluations. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01