Recently, several authors have called for a critical assessment of the normative dimensions of evaluation practice. This article responds to this call by demonstrating how evaluation practice can be enriched through deliberate engagement with care ethics. Care ethics has a relational and practice view of morality and places caring relationships and responsibilities at the forefront of our being in the world. We will demonstrate how care ethics, in particular Joan Tronto’s moral-political theory of democratic caring, can help evaluators to reshape our way of working by placing caring and relationality at the centre of our evaluative work. Care ethics as a normative orientation for evaluation stretches beyond professional codes of conduct, and rule- or principled-based behaviour. It is part of everything we do or not do, how we interact with others, and what kinds of relationships we forge in our practice. This is illustrated with two examples: a democratic evaluation of a programme for refugee children in Sweden; and a responsive evaluation of a programme for neighbours of people with an intellectual disability in The Netherlands. Both examples show that a caring ethos offers a promising pathway to address the larger political, public issues of our times through the interrogation of un-caring practices. We conclude a caring ethos can help evaluators to strengthen a caring society that builds on people’s deeply felt need to care, to relate, and to connect within and across communities.

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通过护理伦理丰富评估实践

最近，几位作者呼吁对评估实践的规范维度进行批判性评估。本文通过展示如何通过有意参与护理伦理来丰富评估实践来响应这一呼吁。关怀伦理学具有道德的关系和实践观点，并将关怀关系和责任置于我们在世界上的最前沿。我们将展示关怀伦理，特别是琼·特朗托的民主关怀的道德政治理论，如何通过将关怀和关系置于我们评估工作的中心来帮助评估者重塑我们的工作方式。护理伦理作为评估的规范导向超出了专业行为准则和基于规则或原则的行为。它是我们做或不做的每一件事的一部分，我们如何与他人互动，以及我们在实践中建立什么样的关系。这可以通过两个例子来说明：对瑞典难民儿童计划的民主评估；以及对荷兰智障人士邻居计划的响应性评估。这两个例子都表明，关怀精神提供了一条有希望的途径，通过质疑不关心的做法来解决我们这个时代更大的政治、公共问题。我们得出的结论是，关怀精神可以帮助评估者加强关怀社会，该社会建立在人们深切感受到的关怀、联系和社区内外联系的需要之上。以及对荷兰智障人士邻居计划的响应性评估。这两个例子都表明，关怀精神提供了一条有希望的途径，通过质疑不关心的做法来解决我们这个时代更大的政治、公共问题。我们得出的结论是，关怀精神可以帮助评估者加强关怀社会，该社会建立在人们深切感受到的关怀、联系和社区内外联系的需要之上。以及对荷兰智障人士邻居计划的响应性评估。这两个例子都表明，关怀精神提供了一条有希望的途径，通过质疑不关心的做法来解决我们这个时代更大的政治、公共问题。我们得出的结论是，关怀精神可以帮助评估者加强关怀社会，该社会建立在人们深切感受到的关怀、联系和社区内外联系的需要之上。