The Rise of Empowerment

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-62
Author(s):  
Brian D. Christens
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Community Processes ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Early Influences

This chapter traces the rise of the term empowerment from its early influences through the 1970s and 1980s, when it became a topic of great interest to activists, policymakers, and those in the helping professions, through to contemporary empowerment theory and practice. Particular attention is paid to a multilevel framework for empowerment that has been advanced by community psychologists. This framework posits inextricable and context-specific empowerment processes and outcomes at the psychological, organizational, and community levels of analysis. This conceptualization has been influential in interdisciplinary scholarship and practice, yet work is still needed to coherently link this framework to the concept of community power, as well as to enhance its ability to illuminate dynamic organizational and community processes.

Microbrook, Mesobrook, Macrobrook

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Jilke ◽  
Asmus Leth Olsen ◽  
William Resh ◽  
Saba Siddiki
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Explicit Characterization ◽  
Methodological Perspective ◽  
Level Of Analysis ◽  
Effective Problem

Abstract This article assesses the field of public administration from a conceptual and methodological perspective. We urge public administration scholars to resolve the ambiguities that mire our scholarship due to the inadequate treatment of levels of analysis in our research. Overall, we encourage methodological accountability through a more explicit characterization of one’s research by the level of analysis to which it relates. We argue that this particular form of accountability is critical for effective problem solving for advancing theory and practice.

Understanding Empowerment Practice: Building on Practitioner-Based Knowledge

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (9) ◽  
pp. 534-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine M. Gutiérrez ◽  
Kathryn A. Delois ◽  
Linnea Glenmaye
Keyword(s):  
Human Service ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Convergence And Divergence ◽  
Empowerment Practice ◽  
Elusive Concept

The concept of empowerment has become popular within the human service professions, but little agreement about its meaning or dimensions has been displayed. The authors describe an effort to clarify this elusive concept by integrating theory with practitioner perspectives. A focused, multiple-case-study method was used to gather the perspectives of human services workers on empowerment practice in the field. The authors identify areas of convergence and divergence between empowerment theory and practice.

Empowerment: theory and practice

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Empowerment Theory

scholarly journals Harnessing values to save the rhinoceros: insights from Namibia

Oryx ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff R. Muntifering ◽  
Wayne L. Linklater ◽  
Susan G. Clark ◽  
Simson !Uri-≠Khob ◽  
John K. Kasaona ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Joint Venture ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Individual Values ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Simple Economic

AbstractThe rate at which the poaching of rhinoceroses has escalated since 2010 poses a threat to the long-term persistence of extant rhinoceros populations. The policy response has primarily called for increased investment in military-style enforcement strategies largely based upon simple economic models of rational crime. However, effective solutions will probably require a context-specific, stakeholder-driven mix of top-down and bottom-up mechanisms grounded in theory that represents human behaviour more realistically. Using a problem-oriented approach we illustrate in theory and practice how community-based strategies that explicitly incorporate local values and institutions are a foundation for combating rhinoceros poaching effectively in specific contexts. A case study from Namibia demonstrates how coupling a locally devised rhinoceros monitoring regime with joint-venture tourism partnerships as a legitimate land use can reconcile individual values represented within a diverse stakeholder group and manifests as both formal and informal community enforcement. We suggest a social learning approach as a means by which international, national and regional governance can recognize and promote solutions that may help empower local communities to implement rhinoceros management strategies that align individual values with the long-term health of rhinoceros populations.

scholarly journals A Model for Developing Meta-Cognitive Tools in Teacher Apprenticeships

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
Paige Bray ◽  
Steven Schatz
Keyword(s):  
Student Teaching ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cognitive Tools ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Tool Set ◽  
Practice Knowledge ◽  
Context Specific

Abstract This research investigates a model for developing meta-cognitive tools to be used by pre-service teachers during apprenticeship (student teaching) experience to operationalise the epistemological model of Cook and Brown (2009). Meta-cognitive tools have proven to be effective for increasing performance and retention of undergraduate students. Postulating that the student teaching experience is a new type of learning ñ learning about practice (knowledge in action), instead of learning curriculum or pedagogy (knowledge possessed) ñ we suggest that a meta-cognitive tool set may prove similarly useful. Before studying the effectiveness of a tool set, however, a model which enables different programmes to evolve and develop appropriate tools is necessary. This case study research explores a model for the development of a context-specific tool set over 18 months, incorporating user feedback, researcher reflection and multiple-tool development. The model showed promise as a starting point for understanding and operationalising complex interactions with theory and practice.

scholarly journals Unintended Effects of Advertising: An Updated Qualitative Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jie Xu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Time Lapse ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Unintended Effects ◽  
Systematic Effort ◽  
Content Specificity ◽  
Thematic Review

Like most strategic communication efforts, advertising produces both intended and unintended effects. However, there has been little systematic effort to synthesizing the unintended effects of advertising. This paper attempt to fill the gap in the literature. A thematic review was conducted to review the dimensions, types, and theories concerning the unintended effects of advertising. Variations of unintended effects in valence, levels of analysis, time lapse, content specificity, and audience types were discerned, on the basis of which a typology of nine unintended effects was proposed, including confusion, materialism, idealization, stereotypes, boomerang, violence, creativity, job performance and economic growth. The implications and directions for future research were discussed. It is hoped that the conceptual dimensions and types of unintended effects presented in this paper will serve as an evolving framework for endeavors to enhancing the theory and practice of advertising.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Use Of Force ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
American University ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
The Third ◽  
Liberal Peace ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Context Specific

This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. Extending that inquiry beyond its traditional parameters, the volume explores the legacies of colonialism, missionary activism, secularism, orientalism, and liberalism. While featuring case studies from diverse contexts and traditions, the volume is organized thematically, beginning with a mapping of scholarship on religion, violence, and peace. The second part scrutinizes challenges to secularist theorizing of questions of conflict transformation and broadens the discussion of violence to include an analysis of its cultural, religious, and structural forms. The third part engages contested issues such as religion’s relations to development, violent and nonviolent militancy, and the legitimate use of force; the protection of the freedom of religion in resolving conflicts; and gender as it relates to religious peacebuilding. The fourth part highlights the practice of peacebuilding through exploring constructive resources within various traditions, the transformative role of rituals, spiritual practices in the formation of peacebuilders, interfaith activism on American university campuses, the relation of religion to solidarity activism, and scriptural reasoning as a peacebuilding practice. It also offers extended reflections on the legacy of missionary peacebuilding activism and the neoliberal framing of peacebuilding schemes and agendas. The volume is innovative because the authors grapple with the tension between theory and practice, cultural theory’s critique of the historicity of the very categories informing the discussion, and the challenge that the justpeace frame makes to the liberal peace paradigm, offering elicitive, elastic, and context-specific insights for strategic peacebuilding processes.

Redefining Web Users' Optimal Flow Experiences in Online Environments

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anshu Saxena Arora ◽  
Mahesh S. Raisinghani
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Optimal Flow ◽  
Online Environments ◽  
Specific Concept ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Flow Experiences ◽  
The Web ◽  
Flow States

The article highlights a research study on consumer navigation behavior through the Web users’ optimal Flow experiences in the online environments. The research study establishes the empirical groundwork for measuring Web users’ Flow experiences in the Web environment. The article proposes a comprehensive definition of Flow on the basis of Comprehensive Process (Flow) Model of Network Navigation, considering that the Flow concept is a multidimensional concept in the “multi-activity” medium of the Web. Flow has been defined as a multi-dimensional and context-specific concept. Furthermore, the research article proposes that there are 10 Flow constructs (also called “the antecedents of Flow”) along with the three states of Flow, namely, Perfect Flow, Imperfect-Intensive Flow, and Imperfect Flow. Consumer Behavior on the Web is studied using the Flow concept for three categories of Flow users, namely, Perfect and Imperfect-Intensive Flow (PIIF) users, Imperfect Flow (IF) users, and Non-Flow (NF) users. These users achieve Flow depending on 10 Flow-constructs and three Flow states. Empirical results suggest a direct relationship between the Flow states and the Flow user categories and between expected Web user in the future (EXPUSE) and the Flow user categories. This research study provides a basis for future researchers to study consumer navigation behavior on the Web using the Flow concept for three categories of Flow users through 10 Flow constructs and three Flow states. The research has significant implications for theory and practice.

Community Power and Empowerment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Christens
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Systemic Change ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Comprehensive Treatment ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Theory Research

Community Power and Empowerment is the most comprehensive treatment of empowerment theory to date. The book begins by situating empowerment with regard to community power, thereby addressing a long-standing ambiguity within empowerment theory, research, and practice. Next, chapters examine psychological, organizational, and community aspects of empowerment processes. A new orienting framework for studying and comparing community empowerment processes is developed. The outcomes and impacts of empowerment processes are specified across multiple pathways. Finally, the book provides recommendations for integrating research and practice to achieve the goals of empowerment: building and exercising social power for systemic change and improving community well-being.

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