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Evaluation processes in education shape people’s histories and possibilities. Susanne Maria Weber, a pioneer in organisational learning studies reflected in her work on the possibilities to counter monolithic outcomes and explore design methods for transformative evaluation. Susanne Weber emphasises that we need to explore social complexity systematically and identify inherent inequalities. Her proposal to utilise evaluation methods that focus on dialogue, solutions, and alternative modes of communication (visual modes) are connected with ideas described by Floya Anthias on intersectionality theory, and Anne-Marie Núñez, who proposed a multilevel model of intersectionality.
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Otrel-Cass, K. (2023). Transformative evaluation through the lens of intersectionality theory. In: Heidelmann, MA., Storozenko, V., Wieners, S. (eds) Forschungsdiskurs und Etablierungsprozess der Organisationspädagogik. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40997-5_5
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