This document introduces a methodology for documenting intangible outcomes that combines a logic model with transdisciplinary action-research. Transdisciplinary action-research integrates different types of knowledge from local communities, experts, and stakeholders to address place-based issues through partnership building. The methodology was developed to evaluate the partnership building aspects of extension programming. It draws on concepts from the literature around community capacity, domains of learning, and cross-cultural learning. An example is provided from a green community development initiative that identified and overcame barriers to partnership. Attendees are thanked and asked to fill out evaluation forms.

1. What Do You Get When You Cross a Logic ModelWhat Do You Get When You Cross a Logic Model
with Transdisciplinary Action- Research?:
A User-Friendly Methodology fory gy
Documenting Intangible Outcomes!
Susan Thering Ph DSusan Thering, Ph.D.
Department of Landscape Architecture
University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Extension
sathering@wisc.edu

2. Transdisciplinary Action-Research:
A process of inquiry that
“i k l d l ”“integrates knowledge cultures”
to address “place-based” issues:
• Local Knowledge
• Specialized Knowledge
• Strategic Knowledge• Strategic Knowledge
• Integrative Knowledge
i.e. “Partnership Building”
(V.A. Brown 2001, Stringer 1999)

3. A Methodology for Outreach Scholarship
From Thering S. 2011. Landscape Journal

4. TransdisciplinaryTransdisciplinary
Learning
Partnership
BuildingBuilding

5. Learning to Evaluate
Transdisciplinary LearningTransdisciplinary Learning
““Nothing as practical as good theory”
(Weiss 1999)

6. The Research Question:
H l h hi b ildiHow can we evaluate the partnership building aspects
of Extension programming?

7. Core Concepts from “The Literature”Core Concepts from The Literature
(i.e. nobody cares what Sue From Buffalo thinks)
• “Community Capacity”
(The CDC)( )
• “Three Domains of Learning”g
(Habermas; Mezirow)
• “Cross-Cultural Learning”
(Merryfiled & Subedi)( y )

9. Example From the Green Community Development Initiative:
“Identifying and Overcoming the Barriers to Partnership”

10. What Do You Get When You Cross a Logic Model
with Transdisciplinary Action- Research?:
A User-Friendly Methodology for
Documenting Intangible Outcomes!
Please fill out your evaluation forms
Thank you!Thank you!
Susan Thering, Ph.D.
Department of Landscape Architecture
University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Extension
sathering@wisc.edu