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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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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: Theoretical frameworks for practical purposes: truths and methods facts and values - power/knowledge living with uncertainty in educational research educational research for social justice - a framework as discussed by the authors, some examples.
Abstract: Part 1 Introduction and context: taking sides, getting change research for social justice? - some examples. Part 2 Theoretical frameworks for practical purposes: truths and methods facts and values - power/knowledge living with uncertainty in educational research educational research for social justice - a framework. Part 3 Practical possibilities: getting started - the research process getting justice - empowerment and voice better knowledge educational research at large.
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TL;DR: In this article, a tentative classification for the evaluation of participation within underdeveloped countries is suggested, based on the degree of the external institutional involvement in terms of facilitating/carrying out community mutual-help projects.
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01 Mar 2003
TL;DR: The Challenge for Communities: Myth or Reality? as discussed by the authors ) is a challenge for communities to decide whether community empowerment is a myth or reality, and the challenge is to determine whether it is a reality.
Abstract: Introduction The Policy Context Ideas of Community Contradictions of Community Prescribing Community to the Poor Power and Empowerment Power in the Policy Process Experiencing Empowerment Reclaiming Community Reclaiming Power The Challenge for Communities The Institutional Challenge Community Empowerment: Myth or Reality?
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TL;DR: It is argued that health promotion is not a social movement but a professional and bureaucratic response to the new knowledge challenges of social movements, and has both empowering and disempowering aspects.
Abstract: Recent reformulations of health promotion focus on empowerment as both a means and an end in health promotion practice. Both concepts, however, are rarely examined for their assumptions about social change processes or the potential of community groups, professionals, and institutions to create healthier living situations. This article attends to some of these assumptions, expressing ideas generated during 6 years of professional training workshops with over 2,500 community health practitioners in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. The article first argues that health promotion is not a social movement but a professional and bureaucratic response to the new knowledge challenges of social movements. As such, it has both empowering and disempowering aspects. The article analyzes empowerment as a dialectical relation in which power is simultaneously given and taken, and illustrates this in the context of health promotion programs. A model of an empowering professional (institutional) health promotion practice is presented, in which linkages among personal services, small group supports, community organizing, coalition advocacy, and political action are made explicit. Practice examples are provided to illustrate each level of the empowering relation, and the article concludes with a brief discussion of the model's educational and organizational utility.
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TL;DR: It is indicated that participation in online support groups can make a valuable contribution to the empowerment of patients.
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