scholarly journals Why a Special Issue of Practice Notes About How to Teach Evaluation?

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. LaVelle ◽  
Jill Chouinard

Introducing this special issue of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. 

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Greene

With great honour, I offer a modest commentary on the articles in this special issue of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, complemented by reflections on my decades of interactions with and memories of Lyn. My commentary underscores the enduring legacy of Lyn’s significant contributions to the field of evaluation. These contributions largely, though not exclusively, reside in three domains: collaborative approaches to evaluation, the field’s deep commitment to evaluation use, and the substance and contributions of meaningful standards for evaluation practice. My reflections honour Lyn’s kindness, practical scholarship, integrity, and joyful engagement with the full richness of life.C’est un grand honneur pour moi d’offrir un modeste commentaire sur les articles de ce numéro spécial de la Revue canadienne d’évaluation de programme, complété par une réflexion sur mes décennies d’interactions avec Lyn et mes souvenirs d’elle. Mon commentaire souligne l’héritage durable de ses importantes contributions au domaine de l’évaluation. Ces contributions sont largement liées, quoique non exclusivement, à trois domaines : les approches collaboratives à l’évaluation, l’engagement profond de la communauté d’évaluateurs pour favoriser l’utilisation de l’évaluation et l’élaboration de normes pour la pratique évaluative. Mes réflexions rendent hommage à la bonté de Lyn, à son experience, à son intégrité et à son engagement toujours enthousiaste.


2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Sodero ◽  
Nicholas Scott

This special issue of Canadian Journal of Sociology on ‘Contentious Mobilities’ showcases Canadian scholarship that investigates mobilities in the context of unequal power relations. Mobilities become contentious when they confront the systematic exclusion of others, advance unconventional mobile practices and defy or destabilize existing power relations. Increasingly, mobilities are contentious in relation to rapidly changing economies, societies and environments. This special issue stages an overdue encounter between the mobilities paradigm and research on sociopolitical contention. Simultaneously, this special issue addresses an empirical gap, featuring Canada as a prolific and influential site for leading-edge research. Five key themes emerge amongst the diverse papers in this issue: life and death, employment-related mobility, intersectionality/in(visibility), governance, and automobility. Further, we identify five potential topics for Canadian mobilities, including climate change, disaster, technology and travel, the good city and methods.


2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles C Lambert

This issue of the Canadian Journal of Zoology exhaustively reviews most major aspects of protochordate biology by specialists in their fields. Protochordates are members of two deuterostome phyla that are exclusively marine. The Hemichordata, with solitary enteropneusts and colonial pterobranchs, share a ciliated larva with echinoderms and appear to be closely related, but they also have many chordate-like features. The invertebrate chordates are composed of the exclusively solitary cephalochordates and the tunicates with both solitary and colonial forms. The cephalochordates are all free-swimming, but the tunicates include both sessile and free-swimming forms. Here I explore the history of research on protochordates, show how views on their relationships have changed with time, and review some of their reproductive and structural traits not included in other contributions to this special issue.


2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltan Hajnal ◽  
Kevin M Ansdell ◽  
Ken E Ashton

Dedication: Dr. John F. Lewry (1939–1999; see Saskatchewan Geological Survey 1999) dedicated his career to investigations of the Saskatchewan–Manitoba segment of the Trans-Hudson Orogen (THO), one of the principal Paleoproterozoic orogens associated with the assembly of Laurentia. Indeed, one can make a strong case that Lithoprobe's Trans-Hudson Orogen Transect (THOT) was designed to test the tectonic models proposed by John Lewry. He delineated the distinct tectonic provinces in the western part of the THO, predicted the presence of an Archean craton trapped within the THO, and recognized and interpreted the significance of the Pelican Thrust between the juvenile Paleoproterozoic volcanic arc complex of the western Flin Flon Domain and the Archean craton, now called the Sask craton. The research published in Lewry and Stauffer (1990), and many of his ideas, provided the framework for the design of the THOT geophysical and geological studies. John Lewry was co-leader of the THOT until he passed away in 1999 after a battle with cancer. This Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences is dedicated to him.


Author(s):  
Marie-Andrée Bertrand

In our call for papers for this special issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society on “Law as a factor of exclusion,” we announced that we were seeking contributions on the discriminatory and exclusionary power of legal and non-legal norms and institutions. We also intimated that the use of historical approaches might prove revealing in analyses of statutes and other legislation, especially for their potential to uncover otherwise hidden legislative agenda.The articles in this issue of the Journal meet and surpass our expectations. Each of the authors brings into sharp focus the central issues at stake in the announced theme. While the majority of the contributions take legislation and judicial decisions as their primary material, some are directed to exploring non-legal norms and social rules. Moreover, even in those contributions taking the state law as their object, the authors display a keen awareness of the power of social norms and social institutions; one of these deals specifically with the practices of the legal profession and the legal academy. Nearly all of the authors historicize their subject.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Patty Douglas ◽  
Alan Santinele Martino

This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies brings together 19 articles by scholars and activists across broad academic disciplines and activist communities— from disability studies to inclusive education, early childhood education, decolonial studies, feminist anti-violence organizing, community health and more—as well as geopolitical locations.


2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Hroch ◽  
Mark CJ Stoddart

The impetus behind this special issue of the Canadian Journal of Sociology on “Mediating Environments” is to bring together current Canadian scholarship interrogating the relationships among the environment, media, and evolving concepts of mediation. Using “mediation” as a way of conceptualizing the interaction of human and non-human actors – whether environmental, technological, social, political – opens up ways of understanding social relationships to include more-than-human agencies and to reconsider the relations that shape subjects, objects, and identities.


2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Robert A. Roughley ◽  
Toupey Luft ◽  
Jill Cummings

Over the past 30 years, the field of counselling psychology has experienced many new insights and shifting practices into counsellor education, practitioner and faculty scholarship, and larger systems including post-secondary institutions, accreditation councils, and regulatory bodies. One of the central contributions to this expanding landscape is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). In this introduction to the present special issue of Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, the authors outline the trends and developments in SoTL and discuss current applications of SoTL to the field of counselling psychology. They highlight the importance of these applications for moving the field of counselling forward. Each of the four articles within this special issue is described briefly through the lens of its contributions to SoTL within counselling psychology.


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