Empowerment Through Agency Enhancement

Author : Mine Sato,Nobuo Sayanagi,Toru Yanagihara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811912276

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Empowerment Through Agency Enhancement by Mine Sato,Nobuo Sayanagi,Toru Yanagihara Pdf

This book focuses on the understanding of factors and mechanisms involved in the development of agency mainly in three related contexts --- participatory development, extension work, and service transactions. The research has its starting point in the recognition of the critical role played by “agency” (commonly understood as want/will for and practice of self-determination and self-management) on the part of intended beneficiaries of services and projects for effective implementation and sustainability. It is designed to address this subject matter with its principal focus on inner capacities and orientations of human beings, posing questions as to how such capacities and orientations could be enhanced and activated in practice by external actors in the field of public policies for socioeconomic and international development. The project is organized transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries --- combining anthropological, psychological, and economic approaches and perspectives.

Author : Pepka Boyadjieva,Petya Ilieva-Trichkova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030671365

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Adult Education as Empowerment by Pepka Boyadjieva,Petya Ilieva-Trichkova Pdf

This book re-imagines the essence and role of adult education at both the individual and societal levels. It provides arguments for understanding adult education as a process of agency and empowerment, which has not only instrumental but intrinsic and transformative roles to play. This book brings together ideas from the capability approach with insights from recognition theory; the embeddedness approach; the political economic perspective for understanding public and private goods and the common goods perspective. The analysis draws on data from large-scale international studies – alongside qualitative data - and adopts a wide-ranging European comparative perspective. The book develops original instruments for measuring different dimensions of adult education as a common good, and its realisation in different social contexts. It is aimed at academics, students, practitioners, and policy makers interested in adult and/or higher education and the social justice perspective to human life.

Author : Dr Sridevi Samineni
Publisher : Archers & Elevators Publishing House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789390996025

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Womens Economic Empowerment through Entrepreneurship and Leadership by Dr Sridevi Samineni Pdf

Author : Karen Evans,Wing On Lee,Jörg Markowitsch,Miriam Zukas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1330 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031195921

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Third International Handbook of Lifelong Learning by Karen Evans,Wing On Lee,Jörg Markowitsch,Miriam Zukas Pdf

The Third edition of this well-received and widely used Handbook brings together an entirely new set of chapters, to reflect progress and new themes in the ten years to 2022. Building on the established structure of the first two Handbooks, the four sections focus in turn on: philosophy, history and theory development; fresh perspectives on policy and policy development; emerging programs and new approaches; and re-imagining lifelong learning for future challenges. The Handbook stimulates readers with fresh and timely insights, while exploring anew some enduring themes. New topics and themes introduced in all sections address lifelong learning challenges associated with climate change, the digital world, the rise of populism, migration and precarious living. The Handbook features learning innovations and evolving pedagogies such as intergenerational learning, art as pedagogy to promote public-mindedness, neuroscience enhancing learning effectiveness, and lifelong learning for sustainability. Policy responses to lifelong learning for work and well-being are debated. In state of the art contributions, authors from around the globe focus readers' attention on multifaceted processes, issues and decisions that must be better understood and enacted if inclusive development and fair access to lifelong learning are to become realities for us all.

Author : David Alexander Clark,Mario Biggeri,Alexandre Apsan Frediani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137352309

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The Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation by David Alexander Clark,Mario Biggeri,Alexandre Apsan Frediani Pdf

This book explores the linkages between Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and participatory forms of development – especially those associated with critical pedagogy and empowerment from the bottom-up. It shows how the capability approach and the participatory movement can complement and reinforce each other helping to ensure that democratic principles are respected and become the foundation for sustainable human development. The Capability Approach provides guiding principles for protecting the transformative roots of participation (safeguarding ownership, accountability and empowerment), while participation delivers vital methods for making the Capability Approach operational. Divided into three overlapping parts that focus on concepts, methods and applications, this work draws on diverse fieldwork experiences to unpack power relations, address adaptive preferences, explore individual and collective agency, consider new partnerships for development, and develop innovative concepts.

Author : John Holford,Pepka Boyadjieva,Sharon Clancy,Günter Hefler,Ivana Studená
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031141096

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Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe by John Holford,Pepka Boyadjieva,Sharon Clancy,Günter Hefler,Ivana Studená Pdf

This open access book challenges international policy ‘groupthink’ about lifelong learning. Adult learning – too long a servant of business competitiveness – should be reimagined as central to democratic society. Young adults, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, engage more in education and training, and learn more day-to-day at work, if provision is democratically organised and based on enduring and inclusive institutional networks, and when jobs encourage and reward the acquisition of skills. Using innovative qualitative and quantitative methods, the contributors develop a critical perspective on dominant policies, investigating – across the European Union and Australia – how ‘vulnerable’ young adults experience programmes designed to improve their ‘employability’, and how ‘skills for jobs’ policies squeeze out wider – and wiser – ideas of what education and training should do. Chapters show why some provision works for those with poor educational backgrounds, why labour market and educational institutions matter so much, how adult education can empower and expand people’s agency, and the challenges of using artificial intelligence in lifelong learning policy-making. Several investigate the pivotal role of workplace learning in organisational life, and in learning during ‘emerging adulthood’. Important comparative studies of workplace learning in the metals, retail and adult education sectors show the role of management, trade unions and social movements in young adults’ learning.

Author : Dr G vani, Dr B Nagarjuna, Md KhwajaMoinoddin, Dr Bindu K Nambiar
Publisher : Archers & Elevators Publishing House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789388805957

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Business Management Practices Emerging Trends by Dr G vani, Dr B Nagarjuna, Md KhwajaMoinoddin, Dr Bindu K Nambiar Pdf

Author : Dr. Prah Ruger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192556547

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Global Health Justice and Governance by Dr. Prah Ruger Pdf

In a world beset by serious and unconscionable health disparities, by dangerous contagions that can circle our globalized planet in hours, and by a bewildering confusion of health actors and systems, humankind needs a new vision, a new architecture, new coordination among renewed systems to ensure central health capabilities for all. Global Health Justice and Governance lays out the critical problems facing the world today and offers a new theory of justice and governance as a way to resolve these seemingly intractable issues. A fundamental responsibility of society is to ensure human flourishing. The central role that health plays in flourishing places a unique claim on our public institutions and resources, to ensure central health capabilities to reduce premature death and avoid preventable morbidities. Faced with staggering inequalities, imperiling epidemics, and inadequate systems, the world desperately needs a new global health architecture. Global Health Justice and Governance lays out this vision.

Author : Bolin, A.
Publisher : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251324455

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Women’s empowerment through collective action: how can forest and farm producer organisations can make a difference by Bolin, A. Pdf

This research report explores different organisational structures and social and cultural services from a gender-equality and women’s empowerment perspective. More specifically, it examines how access to social and cultural services can facilitate women’s participation in economic and political life. The producer organisation business model provides advantages in creating job opportunities and access to markets for women, positive spill-over effects in both household and group businesses, and access to social services such as vocational trainings, childcare and maternity leave – all of which support women to participate in the labour market on a more equal footing with men.

Author : Andy Blunden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004470972

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Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky by Andy Blunden Pdf

Andy Blunden’s Hegel Marx & Vygotsky, Essays in Social Philosophy uses a series of essays to demonstrate how the cultural psychology of Lev Vygotsky and the Soviet Activity Theorists can be used to renew Hegelian Marxism as an interdisciplinary science.

Author : James L. Paul,Carolyn D. Lavely,Ann Cranston-Gingras,Ella L. Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313011856

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Rethinking Professional Issues in Special Education by James L. Paul,Carolyn D. Lavely,Ann Cranston-Gingras,Ella L. Taylor Pdf

Special educators are facing new challenges at the beginning of the 21st century as public education is being reformed by a vision focusing on measurable student outcomes. The future course of the field will be shaped by the policy and programmatic responses to several issues, including demographic changes in student populations, a lack of certified special education teachers, criticism in the public media for the rising costs of services, and debates about the preferred philosophy of service delivery for students with disabilities. Additional chapters discuss university-school collaboration, charter schools, disability studies, school violence, disproportionality in placement, male African-American teachers, and ethics. This book has been written out of a context of research and program development activities with public schools over the past decade in one of the largest Colleges of Education in a diverse metropolitan area in the country. The issues selected for analysis and the perspective guiding those analyses grew out of this work and out of a national Delphi study of the views of parents and constituent organizations and leading researchers, teacher educators, and policy makers in Special Education.

Author : Jean Drèze,Amartya Sen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199257493

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India by Jean Drèze,Amartya Sen Pdf

This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India. The analysis is based on a broad and integrated view of development, which focuses on well-being and freedom rather than the standard indicators of economic growth. The authors placehuman agency at the centre of stage, and stress the complementary roles of different institutions (economic, social, and political) in enhancing effective freedoms.In comparative international perspective, the Indian economy has done reasonably well in the period following the economic reforms initiated in the early nineties. However, relatively high aggregate economic growth coexists with the persistence of endemic deprivation and deep social failures. JeanDreze and Amartya Sen relate this imbalance to the continued neglect, in the post-reform period, of public involvement in crucial fields such as basic education, health care, social security, environmental protection, gender equity, and civil rights, and also to the imposition of new burdens such asthe accelerated expansion of military expenditure. Further, the authors link these distortions of public priorities with deep-seated inequalities of social influence and political power. The book discusses the possibility of addressing these biases through more active democratic practice.

Author : Elizabeth Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136954283

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Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development by Elizabeth Hill Pdf

More than nine out of every ten working women in India are employed in the informal economy, unprotected by labour laws and excluded from basic forms of social security. They work as daily labourers in the fields, small producers and industrial outworkers in their own homes and as vendors on the streets. These workers typically receive very low wages and experience extreme forms of social, economic and political marginalisation. This book examines what types of interventions can improve the well-being of women working in the Indian informal economy. Using the case study of the Self Employed Women’s Association, Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development argues that work-life reform for informal women workers has moral and social dimensions, as well as economic. Drawing on the work of social philosopher Axel Honneth, the book argues that worker agency is critical to the process of work-life reform in the informal economy. Using empirical data collected amongst SEWA members the study shows that there is a positive and developmental relationship between a worker’s identity, or psychological integrity, and her actual capacity to engage in the political economy for constructive change. The study shows that membership based organisations can promote the social foundations of recognition and respect that are critical to identity and agency, as well as provide worker’s with real opportunities to develop alternative non-exploitative economic institutions that deliver improved wages and social security. But in organizing informal workers for collective action the existing distribution of power and wealth, as well as gender privilege are challenged. The result is social conflict and sometimes violence. Conflict of this nature is endemic to the development process, but is often overlooked in development literature and policy design. The book will be of interest to development scholars and practitioners, as well as those interested in the dynamics of women’s empowerment and socio-economic change for informal economy workers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781612337159

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International Journal of Human Development and Sustainability by Anonim Pdf

Author : Beth Goldblatt,Lucie Lamarche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849469760

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Women’s Rights to Social Security and Social Protection by Beth Goldblatt,Lucie Lamarche Pdf

This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women's rights perspective. The contributors stress the need to address women's poverty and exclusion within a human rights framework that takes account of gender. The chapters unpack the rights to social security and protection and their relationship to human rights principles such as gender equality, participation and dignity. Alongside conceptual insights across the field of women's social security rights, the collection analyses recent developments in international law and in a range of national settings. It considers the ILO's Social Protection Floors Recommendation and the work of UN treaty bodies. It explores the different approaches to expansion of social protection in developing countries (China, Chile and Bolivia). It also discusses conditionality in cash transfer programmes, a central debate in social policy and development, through a gender lens. Contributors consider the position of poor women, particularly single mothers, in developed countries (Australia, Canada, the United States, Ireland and Spain) facing the damaging consequences of welfare cuts. The collection engages with shifts in global discourse on the role of social policy and the way in which ideas of crisis and austerity have been used to undermine rights with harsh impacts on women.