| Roundtable: Action Learning: An Intervention to Enhance Cultural Competencies of Evaluators |
| Roundtable Presentation 345 to be held in Santa Barbara on Thursday, Nov 3, 11:40 AM to 12:25 PM |
| Sponsored by the Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Kyehyeon Cho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, kcho20@illinois.edu |
| Abstract: Action learning is a learning intervention based on questioning and critical reflection. It aims to provide chances to learn ways to deal with issues arising from actual work situations (O'Neil & Marsick, 2007). Marsick and Maltbia (2009) further argued that action learning can contribute to participants' transformative learning. In spite of lack of agreement on its definition (Cho & Egan, 2010), action learning has been accepted as a method to contemplate one's own perceptions and to generate discussion about discrepancies among the different ways of thinking. In this sense, action learning appears to be a suitable intervention to develop cultural agency of evaluators. This literature review intends to explore the theoretical possibility of utilizing action learning intervention as a tool to develop cross-cultural competencies for evaluators. Furthermore, this study aims to provide implications of cross-cultural learning interventions for evaluators. |