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1. Introduction

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Mitchell reviews a number of the challenges encountered in evaluating community-based sustainability and international developmental aid initiatives using traditional impact and process evaluation methods. Given the pressing urgency of the Anthropocene, Mitchell argues that project-based learning is an asset, and identifies developmental evaluation as an emerging approach that facilitates project actors to identify, acquire and use their experiential learning to innovate responses to wicked problems.

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Titel: Introduction
verfasst von: Andrew Mitchell
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Second-order Learning in Developmental Evaluation
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-99370-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-99371-3

Copyright-Jahr: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99371-3_1