Message-ID: <Pine.PMDF.3.91.961025002851.12448B-100000@axe.humboldt.edu> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 00:36:00 -0700 From: Ian Hodur <mailto:ilh1@AXE.HUMBOLDT.EDU> Subject: Re: Re(2): help on a paper I'm writing To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Thank you Sophia,
I have ran into the very problem you cite. I am currently preparing letters to send to several Embassys in regards to how development affects the government in those nations. The difficulty with reaching those that the Peace Corps work with has been my biggest stumbling block. If you any sugestions I would love to hear them.
Thanks for the input, Ian
On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Sophia Huyer wrote: > Just a comment on your research question - how can you determine the "success"
> or "failure" of the peace corps by interviewing only peace corps members? By
> doing that you would be determining the perceptions of peace corps members re
> the success of peace corps projects - shouldn't success be determined by the
> recipients of the projects, or the local/national communities involved? It
> seems to me that would be a far larger question and would require interviews
> with so-called beneficiaries to determine whether they really are
> beneficiaries or not!
>
> That being said, it's not that a paper on the perceptions of peace corps
> members re the success or failure of projects wouldn't be worthwhile, I just
> think you need to be more precise about what it is you are doing.
>
> Good luck with it,
>
>
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> Sophia Huyer
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