The Evaluation Journal of Australasia special issue on Values in Evaluation published in December 2019 gave an overview of current discourses associated with valuing in evaluation with the debut of ‘Praxis’ papers. This introduction summarizes the three praxis papers in this second Values in Evaluation special issue. The praxis papers contribute to knowledge about the ways in which we can and should engage with values across a variety of evaluation contexts with varying stakeholders.
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