Abstract
Chapter 2 defines the nature of evaluation and outlines the two predominant evaluative lenses used to capture outcomes and benefits described as being of instrumental or intrinsic value. The chapter then scopes out two issues arising with the arts evaluation sector – the requirement of a victory narrative by arts organizations and the over-reliance on post-event survey data – that are problematic in reporting authentic narratives about an arts-based engagement.
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Elliot Eisner, a leading scholar of arts education who presented a rich and powerful alternative vision to the devastating cuts made to the arts in the U.S. schools in recent decades. He died on 10 January 2014 at his home on the Stanford University campus, from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. He was 80. For further information see Smith, M. K. (2005) ‘Elliot W. Eisner, connoisseurship, criticism and the art of education’, The encyclopaedia of informal education, www.infed.org/thinkers/eisner.htm
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Gattenhof, S. (2017). Evaluation Types and Trends. In: Measuring Impact. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47287-8_2
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