Compară metode

	Evaluarea critică a programelor	Cercetarea Acțională Critică în Educație
Domeniu	Metode de teren	Metode de teren
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anul apariției	1970s–1990s (deliberative democratic strand formalised ~1999; transformative paradigm ~2009)	1986
Autorul original	Ernest House, Ken Howe, Donna Mertens (transformative/deliberative democratic evaluation traditions)	Wilfred Carr & Stephen Kemmis
Tip	Qualitative/mixed-methods evaluation approach	Qualitative participatory research design
Sursa seminală	Mertens, D. M. (2009). Transformative Research and Evaluation. Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1606230787	Carr, W., & Kemmis, S. (1986). Becoming Critical: Education, Knowledge and Action Research. Falmer Press. ISBN: 978-1850000235
Denumiri alternative	critical evaluation, emancipatory evaluation, critical-emancipatory program evaluation, transformative evaluation	critical-emancipatory action research, CEAR, critical participatory action research in education, emancipatory educational inquiry
Înrudite	4	4
Rezumat	Critical program evaluation is an approach to assessing programs that integrates critical theory with standard evaluation methods. It moves beyond measuring whether a program met its stated objectives to interrogating whose interests the program serves, how power and privilege shape its design and outcomes, and whether it advances or hinders equity and social justice. The approach draws on deliberative democratic evaluation (House and Howe) and the transformative paradigm (Mertens), treating evaluation as an inherently value-laden, politically situated practice.	Critical educational action research is a cyclical, participatory research design in which educators collaboratively examine and transform their own practice through iterative cycles of planning, action, observation, and critical reflection. Grounded in critical theory, it goes beyond improving techniques to questioning the social, institutional, and ideological conditions that shape educational practice, aiming at emancipation from unjust or oppressive structures.