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Theory-led evaluations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theory-led evaluations mean that service reality is evaluated against a normative or explanatory theoretical framework to be able to explain and critically assess it. Some of normative expectations with co-creation are: equalising powers, enhancing user rights to participation and influence; human satisfaction and dignity, service tailoring etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theory-led evaluations may help to answer questions of whether the intended roles (co-initiator, co-designer, etc) and relationships (co-responsibility, power-sharing, health promoting, asset-based approach, etc.) are being practiced or established as well as reveal more about the mechanisms of change. This way evaluation adds to the overall Theory of Change towards co-creation or (by way of co-creation) towards service innovations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democratisation theory:<\/strong> Identifying and joining stakeholder voices (such as those of implementing professionals and users\/beneficiaries\u2019) into a more visible and coherent narrative about the service is claimed by some democracy theorists as a significant contribution to the improvement of democratic politics. \u201cPolitics does not exist unless the range of actions can be incorporated into a single narrative and represented in a single public arena\u201d (Rosanvallon, 2008, p. 23). This draws the attention to the framing and re-framing of collective service narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CoSIE evidence suggests that by being able to participate and exert influence in such dialogues stakeholders contribute to the framing of a new more coherent or reframing of less satisfactory, disempowering (from professionals\u2019 or users\u2019 perspective) welfare service narrative. The new narrative expressed openly at least in one public arena provides a better policy evidence than fragmented, insufficiently explored or reflected service accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of particular importance was being able to jointly arrive at a more empowering narrative of the ethics \u2013 norms, roles and relationships \u2013 needed to rehumanize the service. Also, reconceptualizing the available resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theory of change: <\/strong>If we depart from the standpoint that public and private service organizations face great complexity and ambiguity in attempting to better address the unmet needs of social groups, then co-creation enables greater variety of stakeholders and perspectives that may serve to clarify and join up the bits and pieces in a complex service picture and so help instigate and facilitate change. Sharing knowledge and a theoretical framework about co-creation helps the diffusion of common languages and values among the participants(especially in new co-creative practices). This may aid in designing and providing better informed, more meaningful, adequate and thus effective (even efficient) services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Theory-led evaluations Theory-led evaluations mean that service reality is evaluated against a normative or explanatory theoretical framework to be able to explain and critically assess it. Some of normative expectations with co-creation are: equalising powers, enhancing user rights to participation and influence; human satisfaction and dignity, service tailoring etc. Theory-led evaluations may help to answer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"parent":4269,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4794","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/cosie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/cosie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/cosie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/cosie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/cosie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/cosie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5207,"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/cosie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4794\/revisions\/5207"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/cosie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sola.kau.se\/cosie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}