TY - JOUR
T1 - Methodological approaches to evaluating the impact of community arts on health
AU - Kelaher, Margaret
AU - Dunt, David
AU - Berman, Naomi
AU - Joubert, Lindy
AU - Curry, Steven
AU - Jones, Richard
AU - Stanley, Janet Robin
AU - Johnson, Victoria
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - There is increasing interest in examining the effects of arts programmes on health. However, despite evidence of best practice in arts programme delivery there has been little emphasis on evaluation, and the evaluations which have been conducted have often been methodologically limited. In this paper we outline a process for developing evaluation methodologies in arts and health which aims to reconcile the focus on evidence-based practice in health and the more
emergent and experience-based nature of arts practice. In order to achieve this, the methodology went through several stages of development including; clarifying both the health funding agency?s
(VicHealth) and the arts organisations? outcomes and indicators of programme success, mapping the intersection between the programme?s activities and desired outcomes, and developing a
methodology in collaboration with the arts organisations and VicHealth.
We discuss the general philosophy underlying this approach and its applicability to the evaluation of Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) Community Arts Development Scheme (CADS).
AB - There is increasing interest in examining the effects of arts programmes on health. However, despite evidence of best practice in arts programme delivery there has been little emphasis on evaluation, and the evaluations which have been conducted have often been methodologically limited. In this paper we outline a process for developing evaluation methodologies in arts and health which aims to reconcile the focus on evidence-based practice in health and the more
emergent and experience-based nature of arts practice. In order to achieve this, the methodology went through several stages of development including; clarifying both the health funding agency?s
(VicHealth) and the arts organisations? outcomes and indicators of programme success, mapping the intersection between the programme?s activities and desired outcomes, and developing a
methodology in collaboration with the arts organisations and VicHealth.
We discuss the general philosophy underlying this approach and its applicability to the evaluation of Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) Community Arts Development Scheme (CADS).
UR - http://web.education.unimelb.edu.au/UNESCO/pdfs/ejournals/evaluating-community-arts.pdf
M3 - Article
SN - 1835-2766
VL - 1
SP - 1
EP - 20
JO - UNESCO Observatory Journal: Multi-disciplinary Research in the Arts
JF - UNESCO Observatory Journal: Multi-disciplinary Research in the Arts
IS - 1
ER -