Part of AEA 2010 Multipaper session #820: Empowerment Evaluations: Insights, Reflections, and Implications This presentation explores the ways in which critiques of empowerment originating in the field of education research, in addition to insights gleaned from social theories of power, are important considerations if empowerment evaluation is to realize its full emancipatory potential.#2010Conference #TheoriesofEvaluation #Collaborative,ParticipatoryandEmpowermentEval