Participatory evaluation in youth and community work : theory and practice / Susan Cooper.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Evaluation : nature, politics and tensions -- What is evaluation? -- The politics of evaluation -- Practitioners' tensions and dilemmas -- Participatory evaluation -- What is participatory evaluation? -- Participatory evaluation approaches -- Transformative evaluation -- Learning in participatory evaluation -- Participatory evaluation in practice -- Preparing for evaluation -- Data in participatory evaluation -- Methods for generating data -- Analysing data -- Sharing knowledge -- Conclusion -- Index.