Concept Mapping for Planning and Evaluation is a thorough, accessible guide to concept mapping for social or organizational researchers in any context. The volume describes the history of structured conceptualization-a most useful form of concept mapping. It also highlights the advantages that group or community concept mapping has over other kinds of group decision processes. With straightforward language and useful examples from the authors' 40 combined years of creating and working with this process, the book describes in detail the six major steps in the conduct of group concept mapping, and shares both the process of concept mapping and the equally important facilitation and guidance techniques that the authors have developed.

Interpreting the Maps

Outcomes are what people see. But your real art is to foresee the processes, to shape the pathways.

—From E techne macre (Art Is Long), Vahe A. Kazandjian

The purpose of creating maps is to create insight—to present ideas within a conceptual framework that clarifies the views of the group as a whole ...

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