Action Research Dialogue and Praxis: How a Participatory Evaluation Design as a Case Study Unfolded to Restructure an American Indian Program (AlP) and Reconstruct a Thirty Year Relationship With an Ivy League, Land-Grant University

Authors

Rebecca Maldonado Moore, Department of Human Relations, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK

Date of this Version

November 2003

Abstract

The AlP at Cornell University underwent a major internal restructuring process that engaged multiple stakeholders between 1998 and 2000. The methodological, philosophical, political, and pragmatic value of this process will be detailed along with implications for other ethnic programs needing to reassess their relationship with a given institution. Key Terms: Action research, participatory evaluation, search conference