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标题：Practices, modifications and generativity – REA: a practical tool for managing the innovation processes of practices
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作者：Juha Koivisto ; Pasi Pohjola
期刊名称：Systems, Signs & Actions
电子版ISSN：1652-8719
出版年度：2011
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：100-116
出版社：Lingköping University, Aarhus University
摘要：In this paper, a practical REA tool for studying and evaluating practices in the social and health field is introduced. The tool is based on the relational evaluation approach (REA) which studies practices as socio-material systems of action. They are typically developed for some purpose and they are constituted by human actors (clients, practitioners, management), by actions and interactions, as well as by resources that the human actors mobilize and enact in their activities (technical artefacts, rules, concepts, laws, money). The REA tool consists of three parts: 1) the creation of an enactment model of a practice where the transferable core of a practice is possible to define; 2) the follow-up and evaluation of the implementation and enactment process of a practice, where it is possible to plan and evaluate the implementation process of a practice; and 3) the follow-up and evaluation of the change a practice generates, where it is possible to plan and carry out the evaluation process. Both, the implementation process and the evaluation of change are specific to and embedded in the site where the practice is enacted. The REA tool has been tested during 2011 within the innovation processes of numerous development projects in the social and health field in Finland. The paper also discusses the preliminary results of this testing.
关键词：REA; socio-material system of action; modifications; generativity