Empowerment through Elegant Designs

2015 ◽  
pp. 133-149
Author(s):  
Rebecca Nthogo Lekoko
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
Project Sustainability ◽  
The Right

This chapter illustrates that self-empowerment cannot be achieved with strong doubts about capability or confidence. Rather, self-initiative is facilitated by ‘power-within' that is, self-acceptance and self-confidence or the ‘Yes-I-can-do-it' attitude. Having being laid off at work, women in this case started their own business of making elegant bags using skills they gained from the company that laid them off. These women were creative and had the right skills to make elegant bags. They also employed the right processes, structures and rationalities for the project to succeed. In sum, this chapter demonstrates that empowerment would not be effected in a vacuum; it always has to be backed up by policies, processes and rationalities for capacity-building, funding and other factors that can defeat project sustainability and success.

Doctoral capital and well-being amongst Australian PhD students: exploring capital and habitus of doctoral students

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-336
Author(s):  
Wayne Usher ◽  
Brittany A. McCormack
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Reproduction Theory ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Right ◽  
Australian Universities

PurposeThe Higher Degree Research (HDR) journey is known for its difficulties, complexities and challenges (Lees-Deutsch, 2020), with many students experiencing multi-faceted issues and concerns (Skopek et al., 2020). Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate the relationships that exist between variables, vulnerability factors and doctorial capital of candidates (n = 532) studying at Australian universities (2019).Design/methodology/approachA quantitative cross-sectional correlational research design and Bronfenbrenner's socio – ecological framework (personal, home, university, community) was utilised to collect participants' (n = 532) descriptive statistics. Bourdieu's social reproduction theory was used as a lens to examine how experiences, across the PhD candidature, are influenced by several psychosocial factors and doctoral capital.FindingsFrom such a dual methodological approach, the findings from this study suggests that (1) age, (2) gender, (3) nationality, (4) financial/work status, (5) years of PhD and (6) attending postgraduate (PG) student events, go to significantly (p < 0.001) impact (positively and negatively) on students' experiences and correspondingly, impacts on their self-confidence, motivation and mental health and well-being status.Research limitations/implicationsResearch limitations are related to the recruitment of more doctoral students across more Australian universities. Further research is required from HDR supervisors, so as to “balance” the experiences of the PhD journey in higher education.Practical implicationsIn order to succeed in academia and HDR programs, students need to identify with and develop the “right kind of capital” to successfully navigate fields of social and scholarly play. Investigating how the participants perceive their social and scholarly habitus is seen as crucial in helping students to develop positive dispositions relevant to being a doctoral student.Social implicationsThe concept of doctoral capital and well-being, amongst Australian PhD students, is under researched and requires further investigation as a precursor to developing more specific policy designs aimed at providing heightened positive learning environments/HDR programs tailored to support doctoral students.Originality/valueWhilst reforms to improve PhD experiences are well established across the international literature (Geven et al., 2018; Skopek et al., 2020), evidence for Australia is largely missing. It is envisaged, that findings from this research will further assist in the development of quality policies that would go to provide effective services and support for doctoral students within Australian universities.

scholarly journals Capacity Building in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation on Sustainability of Food Security Irrigation Projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-102
Author(s):  
O. Rogito ◽  
T. Maitho ◽  
A. Nderitu
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Participatory Monitoring ◽  
Irrigation Projects ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Project Sustainability ◽  
Main Food Source ◽  
Descriptive Survey

Abstracthealth-related problems and even death among animals and human beings. Agriculture is the main food source; thus, many interventions are made such as that of irrigation by the local county and national government initiated through the National Irrigation Board (NIB). Despite the irrigation projects food insufficiency still persists, therefore their sustainability is questionable. One such approach to improving the sustainability of irrigation projects is participatory monitoring and evaluation which leads to ownership and then higher sustainability. In the study, the objective was to asses if taking corrective action after participatory monitoring and evaluation (PME) influence project sustainability. The study used a descriptive survey and correlation designs to collect data from 316 respondents selected using stratification sand purposeful with strict randomization. Questionnaires were administered and interviews were conducted on selected sample respondents on appointed dates. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 25.0 to get descriptive statistics, correlations coefficients were obtained to test association and degree of strength. Testing of the hypothesis was done using linear regression. The study findings were that a large number of respondents were between ages 31 to 40 years and most were female with their highest level of education being primary school. The influence of PME capacity building on the dependent variable and irrigation projects sustainability found that the farmers were not taken for exposure visits and project officers were not accountable for money use. Age, gender, and education level have very minimal influence on PME capacity building. PME capacity building had a weak positive influence of r = 0.290 and it explained only 8.4% of irrigation projects sustainability in Kitui County. The study recommends that to improve project capacity building: project revenue must be controlled on use, farmers must be taken for exposure visits to learn from successors, project officers should be accountable for funds use, and project guidelines should be improved to increase sustainability. Implementation of these recommendations will reduce the loss of Arid and Semi-Srid Lands (ASALs) and attain higher and longer sustainability in food projects, thus, reducing the recurrence rate of food shortage, improve and hasten the implementation of irrigation projects, show the need to involve primary stakeholders in project monitoring and appraisal for sustainability, better and efficient decisions by policymakers to increase chances of project’s success.

Less Stress, More Success

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilee Jones ◽  
Kenneth R. Ginsburg ◽  
Martha M. Jablow
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
College Admissions ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Handling Stress ◽  
Authentic Self ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Building Resilience ◽  
The Right ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
Admissions Process

The college admissions process is an ideal time to help teens learn to manage stress...before they show up in your office with complaints of anxiety, depression, or the results of risky behavior. Is your teen stressing over college admittance? Are you? Cowritten by a former top college admissions dean and a leading pediatrician, this first-of-its-kind book delivers strategies for surviving the admissions process while strengthening parent-child relationships, managing the stress of applying to college, and building resilience to meet challenges today and in the future. Less Stress, More Success is just what parents and teens need to thrive during this important rite of passage into adulthood. For Parents: How to encourage true high achievement, rather than perfectionism, Important dos and don'ts about the admissions process and how you can most effectively help your child, Why and when some forms of "helping" undermine your teenager's self-confidence and chances of admission, How to turn deadlines into opportunities to learn time-management and organization skills, How you can encourage positive strategies for handling stress and building resilience. For Teens: How to evaluate campus culture to find the right fit for you, Ways to manage your parents and your friends, Tips for the college interview, Letting your true, authentic self come through in your admissions essay, How your body handles stress...and what you can do to feel better and stay healthy. Includes a Personalized Stress Management Plan!

“How Did I Make It?”: Uncertainty about Own Motor Performance after Inhibition of the Premotor Cortex

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 1052-1061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Bolognini ◽  
Luca Zigiotto ◽  
Maíra Izzadora Souza Carneiro ◽  
Giuseppe Vallar
Keyword(s):  
Motor Performance ◽  
Posterior Parietal Cortex ◽  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Premotor Cortex ◽  
Motor Task ◽  
Single Pulse ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Cathodal Tdcs ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Right

Optimal motor performance requires the monitoring of sensorimotor input to ensure that the motor output matches current intentions. The brain is thought to be equipped with a “comparator” system, which monitors and detects the congruence between intended and actual movement; results of such a comparison can reach awareness. This study explored in healthy participants whether the cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the right premotor cortex (PM) and right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) can disrupt performance monitoring in a skilled motor task. Before and after tDCS, participants underwent a two-digit sequence motor task; in post-tDCS session, single-pulse TMS (sTMS) was applied to the right motor cortex, contralateral to the performing hand, with the aim of interfering with motor execution. Then, participants rated on a five-item questionnaire their performance at the motor task. Cathodal tDCS of PM (but not sham or PPC tDCS) impaired the participants' ability to evaluate their motor performance reliably, making them unconfident about their judgments. Congruently with the worsened motor performance induced by sTMS, participants reported to have committed more errors after sham and PPC tDCS; such a correlation was not significant after PM tDCS. In line with current computational and neuropsychological models of motor control and awareness, the present results show that a mechanism in the PM monitors and compares intended versus actual movements, evaluating their congruence. Cathodal tDCS of the PM impairs the activity of such a “comparator,” disrupting self-confidence about own motor performance.

scholarly journals Right of Knowing and Using Mother Tongue: A Mixed Method Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Burhan Ozfidan
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
Mother Tongue Education ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
The Right

Language is a crucial factor for the academic achievement of minority people. Speaking the mother tongue in school increases self-confidence and thinking skills, and conveys freedom of speech. Mother tongue is an inseparable element of his or her culture and that everyone has the right to learn his or her mother tongue. The main objective of this current study is to illustrate the need for a language curriculum and to investigate what parameters will influence the development of a mother tongue. This study used an explanatory sequential mixed method, conducted in two phases: a quantitative phase followed by a qualitative phase. For quantitative data collection, 140 participants responded the survey instrument. For qualitative data collection, 12 participants were interviewed. The results indicated that everyone has the right to be taught in their mother tongue. Mother tongue education is necessary for a student to have an equal access to education and gain benefits from education as do others. Mother tongue education has a crucial role in ensuring school attendance, raising the quality of education, and integrating children into society. Therefore, the findings reflected that a bilingual education program is necessary to be educated in mother tongue.

scholarly journals Efektifitas Program Peningkatan Kapasitas Aparatur Pemerintah Desa Oleh Dinas Pemberdayaan Masyarakat dan Desa Kabupaten Subang

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-147
Author(s):  
Kusman Yuhana ◽  
Tony Pathony
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Village Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Building Program ◽  
The Village ◽  
Capacity Building Program ◽  
Descriptive Method

Penelitian ini berjudul Efektivitas Program Peningkatan Kapasitas Aparatur Pemerintah Desa oleh Dinas Pemberdayaan Masyarakat dan Desa Kabupaten Subang, karena diduga masih rendahnya kemampuan aparatur pemerintah desa dalam pengelolan penyusunan kebijakan desa dan manajemen pelayanan desa. Metode penelitian yang digunakan metode deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Whitney dalam Nazir (2003: 63) mengatakan bahwa metode deskriptif ini merupakan pencarian fakta dengan interpretasi yang tepat. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa Efektivitas Program Peningkatan Kapasitas Aparatur Pemerintah Desa oleh Dinas Pemberdayaan Masyarakat dan Desa Kabupaten Subang belum sepenuhnya efektif, belum sesuai dengan dimensi yang ada atau yang ditentukan. Program Peningkatan Kapasitas Aparatur Pemerintah Desa belum berjalan seperti yang diharapkan. Terutama pada dimensi produksi dan efisiensi.   This study is entitled The Effectiveness of the Village Government Apparatus Capacity Building Program by the Subang District Community and Village Empowerment Office, due to the alleged low ability of village government officials in managing village policy formulation and village service management. The research method used is descriptive method with a qualitative approach. Whitney in Nazir (2003: 63) says that this descriptive method is a fact finding with the right interpretation.In this study the analysis used is data reduction, data presentation and conclusion. The results showed that the effectiveness of the Village Government Apparatus Capacity Building Program by the Subang District Community Empowerment and Village Agency was not yet fully effective, not in accordance with the existing or determined dimensions. The Village Government Apparatus Capacity Building Program has not gone as expected. Especially on the dimensions of production and efficiency.  

scholarly journals PEMERINTAH DAN HAK BERAGAMA DI INDONESIA (Peran pemerintah dalam memelihara hak beragama di Indonesia)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irfan Setia Permana
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
State Policies ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

The government in this case is the legislative and executive institutions are managers in the order of a State. The condusiveness of a State depends on the government's role in treating every citizen fairly. One of the concerns of the State is of course Religion. There are six Religions recognized as official Religion in Indonesia. Therefore, the adherents of a religion in Indonesia should be treated proportionally and fairly by the Government so that it can perform its religious duties.In this discussion the method used is descriptive analysis approach. The steps taken in the discussion of this theme are: determine the focus of research, determine the type and source of data then process and analyze it.The result of the discussion of this topic shows that the Law of the State of Indonesia has guaranteed the right and freedom of every citizen to religion according to his own belief. Therefore, it is appropriate that the people who sit in the legislature and the executive to always maintain the religious freedom of every citizen without looking at the ideology he embraces.There is still in this country discriminatory practices and injustices against the adherents of certain religions, it is necessary steps to provide justice together, including; political struggle for equality and capacity building and understanding of multiculturalism over democratic values. The first attempt was an advocacy of a number of state policies that were still considered unfair. Some legislation products that are less in harmony with the spirit of the 1945 Constitution and the development of the modern world are now being reviewed. While the second attempt is intended to strengthen the consciousness of the majority to further develop the values of equality, freedom, humanistic, homeland love and tolerance to diversity. If these noble things are successfully developed and implemented by all people it will be useful not only for the consolidation of democracy in this country, but also to strengthen nation and State.

scholarly journals ASSUMPTIONS ON SOCIAL SUCCESS AND MOTIVATION IN YOUTHFUL AGE

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Olga Kobzeva ◽  
Olga Tuzova
Keyword(s):  
Professional Competence ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Genetic Method ◽  
Social Success ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Personality Changes ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level ◽  
Level Of Motivation

The problem of social success has not been considered as an independent one in Psychology for a long time, but it has been included in the structure of research related to effective communication, social status and professional competence. The increased interest in it is due to the growing attention to the problem of personality changes, an increase in the environmental “challenges” to human abilities, as well as the need to quickly respond to changes in society. The authors study the role of social success in the structure of mental development of the personality; define the determinants that affect its formation and development. The purpose of research is to study the correlation between the level of motivation for success and assumptions on social success among youthful age. The study involved 258 respondents (99 young men and 159 young ladies aged 18 to 21 years). The researchers used a psychodiagnostic method, including two techniques (the “Successful person” method by G.R. Khuzeeva, the method of diagnosing motivation for success by T. Ehlers, in adaptation of E.P. Belinskaya), methods of mathematical and statistical analysis, a genetic method. The results of the study showed that the assumptions on social success in youthful age is associated with getting education, self-confidence, determination, hard work. The authors revealed the relationship between the learners’ level of motivation for success and their assumptions on social success. In a group of young men with a high level of motivation for success, assumptions on social success are associated with the activity aspect (diligence, one’s own activity, responsibility) and the humanistic orientation (well-disposed, responsive, able to sacrifice). Respondents with a low level of motivation for success have a material orientation in the image of success (careerist, entrepreneurial, has connections with the right people).  

scholarly journals Research on the Path of Constructing Foreign Discourse System——How to spread China’s Voice Well

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Miao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
International Communication ◽  
National Image ◽  
Hard Power ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Right ◽  
Speak Up ◽  
Communication Methods ◽  
General Secretary

In an important speech delivered at the 2018 National Propaganda and Ideological Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Tell Chinese stories well, spread China’s voices, and increase the national cultural soft power and influence of Chinese culture." National soft power is mainly manifested in the attractiveness of a country, and the improvement of national soft power is conducive to enhancing the international voice. All along, China's hard power and China's soft power development are very unbalanced. China's hard power has not yet been reflected in China's cultural soft power and cultural influence, so that it cannot display China's national image well. Although China has the confidence and self-confidence to tell a good Chinese story, under the environment of international public opinion that "the west is strong and China is weak", it dares not take the initiative to speak up and has been in a dilemma of "being scolded". One of the most important reasons is that China ’s international communication capabilities are not enough. In the current era of highly developed information technology, whoever has advanced communication methods and strong communication capabilities, whoever has the cultural ideas and values can spread out, and who can master the right to speak internationally, it can be said that if there is no effective communication channel, it will fall into the dilemma of "justification is nowhere to be said, and there is no way to spread it."

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