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Created: January 6, 2002
Latest Update: January 6, 2002
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Evaluation without Structural Violence

Journal entry by jeanne

Copyright: Jeanne Curran, Susan Takata. January 2002.
"Fair use" encouraged.

This essay is a proposal to our Dear Habermas staff to work with me on formalizing the evaluation procedures we have been using in our effort to teach peace, social justice, and avoid structural violence. It's easy to call existing practices structurally violent. We usually know what we mean by that. And we learned long ago, with the early stages of Moot Court that the development of a solid critical approach to violence in our climate of learning was the first step.

But it's much harder to construct non-violent feedback to keep us on track. I propose to set up a workgroup in Spring 2002 to formalize the evaluation approach we have been using as one of our thesis projects.

On Sunday, January 6, 2002, Post on PEC list:

Dear Friends; we are putting together for UNESCO a kit of evaluation tools for peace education programs from the around the world. The kit, once done, will be available to all program designers and practioners who could choose from its many field tested tools the one(s) that fit their program best. If you have a questionnaire, interview schedule, observation scheme or whatever tool the qualities of which you know, please share it with us so that we can include it in the kit (with appropriate credits!) to be shared with others.

Thanks, and have a happy and peaceful new year.

Gabi Salomon: gsalomon@research.haifa.ac.il

On Sunday, January 7, 2002, jeanne responded to Gabi Salomon:

I have a teaching site on which I have had several years of experience at teaching peace education and social justice. The evaluation tool I have used has been the development of the site itself. Although I am in the process of writing up what we have learned from this, there are several approaches that we could identify that might be of use to others in evaluating their own programs. Would that be of interest to you?

I just proposed this as a thesis project to my students at http://www.habermas.org/evaltech01.htm.

jeanne
Jeanne Curran, Ph.D., Esq.
Professor of Sociology
California State University, Dominguez Hills