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The science of evaluation : a realist manifesto / Ray Pawson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2013.Description: xix, 216 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781446252420 (hbk.)
  • 1446252426 (hbk.)
  • 1446252434 (pbk.)
  • 9781446252437 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • H62 .PAW 2013
Contents:
Precursors: seven pillars of realist wisdom -- First principles: a realist diagnostic workshop -- A complexity checklist -- Contested complexity -- Informed guesswork: the realist reponse to complexity -- Invisible mechanisms I: the long road to behavioural change -- Invisible mechanisms II: clinical interventions as social interventions -- Synthesis as science: the bumpy road to legislative change -- Conclusion: a mutually monitoring, disputatious community of truth seekers.
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Books Books City Campus Library General Stacks City Campus Library Non-fiction H62 PAW 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c. 1 Available 001797
Books Books Mashava Campus Library General Stacks Mashava Campus Library Non-fiction H62 PAW 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.2 Available 001815
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-209) and index.

Precursors: seven pillars of realist wisdom -- First principles: a realist diagnostic workshop -- A complexity checklist -- Contested complexity -- Informed guesswork: the realist reponse to complexity -- Invisible mechanisms I: the long road to behavioural change -- Invisible mechanisms II: clinical interventions as social interventions -- Synthesis as science: the bumpy road to legislative change -- Conclusion: a mutually monitoring, disputatious community of truth seekers.

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