Search results for "empowerment"

Agency as the Ability and Opportunity to Participate in Evaluation as Knowledge Construction

2011

School communities find themselves within an overall ideological and epistemological controversy with regard to a drive for goal-oriented and ‘evidence-based’ practices on the one hand and emancipative bottom-up developmental strategies on the other, treating empirical data as information to be analysed according to context, with potential meaning for practice. This raises questions of democratic purposes of education, of leaders' and teachers' agency and corresponding accountability. This article is therefore an empirically based discussion of the relationship between multiple understandings of democracy and multiple practices of evaluation. It presents certain results of three ethnographi…

Designing patient education and counseling practices

2013

Patient education and counselling are essential constituents of interaction between a patient and a healthcare organisation. This study explores patient education and counselling practices, focusing on the opportunities of modern technology in the development of interaction with patients. With the help of a qualitative study we illustrate nurses' conceptions about the topic and discuss future opportunities. Our approach is distinctively patient centred; all discussion about the use of technology is from the point-of-view of patient's well-being and empowerment.

The local cultural sector : Reinvigorating its public functions and foundations

2016

In the Nordic tradition, public cultural policy has been endowed with an enlightening and welfarepolitical aim. Nordic cultural policies are based on an overall socio-political objective of furthering the empowerment of the individual, universal enlightenment ("Bildung") and the continued democratisation of society (Nielsen 2003). Locally, an important actor is a municipal cultural sector that is one specialized sector in a municipality's administration. Cultural and art institutions (such as libraries, museums, theatres) are working under the cultural sector administration, although they might sometimes have their own separate administration. According to Gray (2002, pp. 82-83) the arts as…

Developing empowering health counseling measurement

2006

Abstract Objective This article describes the derivation of an instrument (Empowering Speech Practices Scale) for assessing the empowerment of dyadic counseling, the evaluation of the validity and reliability of the ESPS and the results acquired with the instrument from hospital counseling. Methods ESPS was constructed on the basis of empowerment theory and foregoing conversation analytic research. Nurses and patients assessed the same counseling session by way of parallel statements. Structure and reliability of the scale were evaluated with Cronbach alpha, percentage of agreement, factor analysis and logistic regression analysis. Results According to these preliminary results, ESPS descri…

Kansalaisverkot ja digitaalinen toimijuus

2006

Digitaalisten kuilujen eli uuden teknologian käyttöön liittyvien eriarvoisuuksien lisäksi on syytä puhua myös ihmisten eriarvoisesta toimijuudesta tietoyhteiskunnassa. Teknologia sinänsä ei tee ihmisistä syrjäytyneitä tai mukana olevia, vaan sen soveltaminen toimijuutta ja osallisuutta edistävässä tarkoituksessa. Voidaan paremminkin puhua osattomuuden kuiluista ja tietoyhteiskunnan syrjäytyneistä, joille informaatioteknologia voisi tuoda selkeää hyötyä yhteiskunnan jäseninä toimimisen sekä oman hyvinvoinnin kannalta, mutta jotka eivät voi tai osaa sitä hyödyntää. peerReviewed

Emotions, stratégies politiques et engagement citoyen

2022

Longtemps décriées pour leur manque de rationalité, les émotions sont pourtant omniprésentes dans les débats politiques et sociétaux actuels. Alors que la sphère publique contemporaine est traversée par des clivages profonds, comment rendre compte des articulations entre émotions collectives, mobilisations politiques et participation citoyenne ? Quels sont les contextes politiques et culturels qui favorisent l'expression des émotions ? Quelle est l'influence des outils numériques dans la formation de communautés émotionnelles et dans l'émergence de nouvelles formes de contestation ? De quelle façon les stratégies d'action des collectifs citoyens intègrent-elles les émotions pour convaincre …

Digital participation for an eco-responsive consumption

2013

Il lavoro di cura con le famiglie migranti nell’ottica dell’empowerment

2011

Formare i genitori in un quartiere "a rischio": il senso di un'esperienza

2006

La disabilità e l'empowerment bi-professionale di assistente sociale e counselor in una prospettiva di Social Innovation

2013

Il saggio pone agli estremi della riflessione il soggetto diversamente abile da un lato e la Social Innovation come modello emergente del fare politica sociale. Analizza i due nuclei concettuali attraverso gli sviluppi procedurali che potrebbero determinarsi nell’integrazione professionale delle competenze proprie dell’assistente sociale e del counselor. La ricerca condotta attraverso le interviste semistrutturate a testimoni significativi che svolgono l’una o l’altra delle professioni esaminate presso associazioni di Terzo settore della Sicilia occidentale, si sforza di individuare gli elementi di criticità a quelli che potenzierebbero le reciproche competenze dei professioni sti in questi…