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This book is intended both as supplementary reading for courses and as a practical guidebook for individuals and programs interested in reducing prejudice and improving intergroup relations. It provides the only comprehensive review and compilation of techniques of improving intergroup relations. There's a huge amount of literature on the causes and nature of prejudice, reflecting great interest in the topic, but the literature on prejudice reduction is more scattered, spread across a range of theoretical and applied sources. This book brings these literatures together with an emphasis on helping to elucidate what works and why.
Evaluating Intergroup Relations Programs
Evaluating Intergroup Relations Programs
We include a chapter on evaluation in this book on intergroup relations programs because we believe that evaluation can play an invaluable role in improving these programs. This chapter is designed primarily for practitioners, would-be practitioners, and students of intergroup relations, in the hope of demystifying the evaluation process. It will not transform readers into professional program evaluators, but it will provide a basic understanding of the range of evaluation techniques that are available and how they are used. Readers who are already well acquainted with program evaluation research techniques may still find the examples and special problems of inter-group relations programs of interest.
Throughout this book, we have stressed the need for more evaluations of programs designed to ...
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