No one single point-of-view is the complete truth. But together, they comprise a more complete truth. As a service provider at the cutting edge of culturally responsive evaluation, participatory developmental, empowerment and realist approaches, we equip our clients with the knowledge and skills to deliver multiculturally valid evaluations.
Multicultural validity
Multicultural validity articulated by Karen Kirkhart in 1995 refers to the correctness or authenticity of understandings across multiple, intersecting cultural contexts. It focuses attention on how well evaluation captures meaning across dimensions of cultural diversity, and it scrutinizes the accuracy or trustworthiness of judgments of merit and worth. Multicultural validity is a multifaceted construct that permits evaluators to explore the many ways in which culture impacts meaning and understanding.
We support you to deliver evaluations that presume an understanding of culture and culturally biased discrimination and build capacity in culturally anchored methodology.
We offer this service to support our clients to understand and appreciate diverse cultural perspectives and enable inclusive evaluative understandings and judgements that are culturally contextualised.