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Empowerment
About: Empowerment is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 42112 publications have been published within this topic receiving 752953 citations.
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TL;DR: It is concluded that educators should more carefully deliberate the conditions required for collaboration, should more directly address the preparation of school personnel for collaborative activities, and should call for realistically matching expectations for reform with implementation opportunities and constraints.
Abstract: Although school reform has captured the attention of this country, considerable controversy exists regarding the feasibility of reform, appropriate strategies for implementing reforms, and the adequacy of preparation of school professionals who will work in reformed schools. We propose that collaboration is the theme which unites the various dimensions of school reform and that the potential of school reform success can be analyzed by examining the extent to which the conditions needed for collaboration can be created in schools. We apply this notion to three key reform issues: (a) professionalism; (b) empowerment; and (c) restructured schools, specifically as recommended in special education. We conclude that educators should more carefully deliberate the conditions required for collaboration, should more directly address the preparation of school personnel for collaborative activities, and should call for realistically matching expectations for reform with implementation opportunities and constraints.
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20 Jul 1999
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concept of fair trade in the global market and present a mission-driven journey to achieve social justice and economic empowerment through fair trade through 10,000 villages in India.
Abstract: PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO FAIR TRADE IN THE GLOBAL MARKET Philosophy, Practices and Organizational Culture Scholarly Perspectives for Analysis of Fair Trade PART TWO: INCOME, JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT THROUGH FAIR TRADE Ten Thousand Villages A Mission-Driven Journey SERRV Alternative Distribution, Philosophical Considerations and Hard Business Decisions Pueblo to People Balancing Politics and Business Marketplace Handwork of India 'Soaring with Strong Wings' Focused Players with Pragmatic Approaches PART THREE: DIVERSE STAKEHOLDERS IN THE SYSTEM OF FAIR TRADE Artisan Producer Groups 'Our Hands Are Our Future' ATO Consumers Creative, Practical and Concerned Challenges in Product Development PART FOUR: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR MAXIMIZING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY THROUGH FAIR TRADE Strategic Appropriateness for the Global Market The Future for Alternative Trade Organizations
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TL;DR: The health goals of persons with serious mental illness are greatly improved when their personal power is advanced and approaches that focus on the person and treatment relationship are not sufficient.
Abstract: The health goals of persons with serious mental illness are greatly improved when their personal power is advanced. Two targets of empowerment are discussed in this paper: treatment partnerships and community opportunities. Strategies that enhance treatment partnerships include provider endorsement of recovery rather than promoting an approach that suggests poor prognoses, treatment plans that are collaborative rather than unilateral decision making that is perceived as coercive, and treatment services provided in the person's community rather than geographically or psychological distant institutions. Approaches that focus on the person and treatment relationship are not sufficient however. Stigma and discrimination are significant barriers to the kind of community opportunities that are necessary to help people attain life goals. Communities that substitute stigmatizing attitudes and discriminatory behaviors with realistic views of mental illness are more likely to provide the kind of reasonable accommodations that some people need for work and independent living opportunities.
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TL;DR: A hypothesized model exploring the influencing pathways of empowerment perceptions, health literacy, self-efficacy, and self-care behaviors to glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in patients with type 2 diabetes was validated.
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