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Dismantling Master’s House with master’s Tools: Toward Liberation in Evaluation Rodney Hopson, Duquesne University Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment Inaugural Conference College of Education at Illinois 21-23 April, 2013
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Dismantling Master’s House with master’s Tools:
Toward Liberation in Evaluation Rodney Hopson, Duquesne University
Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment Inaugural Conference
College of Education at Illinois21-23 April, 2013
Vote of ThanksCollege of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignCREA Inaugural Conference Planning Committee & Conference TeamRobert Wood Johnson Evaluation Fellowship Program: OMG Center for Collaborative Learning & School of Education, Duquesne University
Our role as evaluators, “in such a time as this”
Ancient Susa
Children in modern day Susa
Master’s Tools and Master’s House
What does it mean when the tools of a racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy? It means that only the most narrow perimeters of change are possible and allowable.(Lorde, 1984/1979)
Beyond tools…
Results Lead To
Positive Cultural
& Sociopolitical
Outcom
es For
The Group
Over Tim
e
Com
munity A
nalysis
School AnalysisClassroom
Analysis
Program Analysis
CIVIC CAPACITY
SO
CIA
L C
APIT
AL S
UM
MA
RY
CR
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EA
M
SELECTIO
N &
PR
EPA
RATIO
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FundingTechnologyMaterialsPhysical
EnvironmentStakeholderGroups
Frame RightQuestions w/Stakeholder Input
Gain Stakeholder Buy In
Design CRE
Agreement on Evidence?
Select &/O
r Adapt
Instruments
Collect Data
Mixed Methods)
Culturally Trained
Data Collectors
AnalyzeData
(Disaggregate)CRE Panel
Review Of
Findings
YESNO
District Analysis
Produce Report andPresentation
CULTURAL INFLUENCES
SOCIOPOLITICAL INFLUENCES
*CONTE
XTU
AL
ANALY
SIS
W/
CULT
URAL/
SOCIO
POLI
TICAL
EMPHASIS
*Cultural/Sociopolitical factors are emphasized throughout the evaluation
Product WidelyDistributed & ResultsExplained To AllStakeholders
StakeholdersResults Useful ForAll Stakeholders
SANKOFA MODEL
©2010 P. Frazier-Anderson, S. Hood. & R. Hopson. All Rights Reserved.
Whose assumptions drive our tools?
Who forms the work? Who sets the agenda?
Who informs our work?
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Entrance to Africville
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Africville Relocation
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Africville news
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Africville during relocation
Relevance Africville
Africville Stakeholders
Department of Public WelfareAfricville
DalhousieUniversity
HalifaxNova ScotiaCanada& Beyond
City and Municipal Government More government
Relevance Africville
“The historical description and evaluation of the Africville relocation had, therefore, to be planned and executed at standards of comprehensiveness, thoroughness, and competence…”
-Clairmont & Magill, 1971
Responsibilities Africville
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Action on Africville
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Responsibilities Africville
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Africville 2012
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Africville 2012
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Africville 2012
Evaluation as liberatingLiberation is a value of science. That should be the perspective from which minority scientists seek to advance multiple perspectives, and methodological rigor: not for the purpose of simply predicting, controlling, and understanding, but for the purpose of emancipating (liberating) the bodies, minds, communities, and spirits of oppressed humankind (Gordon, 1999:184).
