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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"personal empowerment"”.
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Relationship between Self-Stigma and Personal Empowerment among People Who have Severe Mental Illness
… between self-stigma of mental illness and personal empowerment among people who have a severe mental illness. It had been hypothesized that self-stigma of mental illness and personal empowerment are at opposite end of a continuum. As such, individuals who perceive themselves in a …
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A Perspective of the Effectiveness of Project Based Bilingual Curriculum in Personal Empowerment of the Adult English Language Learner: A Case Study
<p>This case study takes a perspective on the effectiveness of Project-Based Bilingual Curriculum in empowering the adult English language learner. The purpose of this study is to examine the English acquisition process of adult Latina women who participate in a project based bilingual language …
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An examination of homelessness from a stress perspective.
… the crisis of being homeless. Specifically, personal factors (personality characteristics, sex, past experiences of homelessness, personal empowerment and approach-style and avoidance-style coping responses) and environmental factors (perceived social support and social network size) were …
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Power and consent: Relation to self-reported sexual assault and acquaintance rape
… rape. Power was examined at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and socio-cultural levels. In addition, two perspectives on power were studied: power as dominating others and power as a sense of personal empowerment or control. A scale to measure this distinction was created.</p><p>Three …
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Pop/Rock Compositions Lyrically Targeting an "At-risk" Constituency
… explore and articulate delicate social and personal issues. Specifically, the music targets a constituency of at risk youth who are embroiled in issues arising from physical and mental abuse, depression, and maladies rooted in family dysfunction. The aim of this project is to reach out to …
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Social defense mechanisms : tools for reclaiming our personal space
… counter-technologies to help people defend their personal space from unwanted electronic intrusion. Both devices were designed and prototyped with reference to the culture-jamming "Design Noir" philosophy. The first is a pair of glasses that darken whenever a television is in view. The second is …
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Higher Education as a Development Tool: An Impact Assessment in Dzaleka Malawi
… a significant transformation related to their personal empowerment and human capital. Program graduates demonstrated hard skills related to business development, teaching practice and conflict resolution/negotiation. Interviews with alumni and community members confirmed that the diploma …
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Being Nice is Lethal: Disciplining and Subverting Southern Femininity in Contemporary Southern Popular Culture
… that performance. While individual women find personal empowerment through the practice of southern femininity, collectively it is a dangerous performance that maintains race and class boundaries and is exclusionary far more than inclusionary. It depends on both the hyper-feminized performance …
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"Affirmed from under" : the Irish language education movement in Belfast
… for education as a vehicle for community and personal empowerment.
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CONSUMERISM, SOCIAL PRACTICE, AND SLAVERY: CONSUMER PRACTICES AMONG ENSLAVED LABORERS AT POPLAR FOREST PLANTATION (1828-1861)
… of control over their daily lives and degrees of personal empowerment. Enslaved men and women adapted to the uncertain realities of antebellum slavery by acquiring and using goods to shape their identities and to promote and maintain health and well-being for themselves and their families. This …
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Weaving in public spaces: Peruvian indigenous women in social entrepreneurship ventures
… have led to differences in the level of personal satisfaction the women derive from their respective weaving associations. Findings also suggest that social entrepreneurship projects have a potential to increase human capability and start disadvantaged populations on a path of personal …
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Teacher Responses to Participation in Hawaii's Kahua Induction Program
… context, and for supportive professional and personal relationships. Second, the teachers reported that the Kahua Program provided both significant knowledge of Native Hawaiian culture through field trips to locations of cultural vii significance and helpful instruction on ways to implement …
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Cultivating a growth mindset within a blended learning environment at a University in South Africa: a design-based research study
… Research study attempts to unlock the spirit of personal empowerment among professional adult learners within the higher educational system through an interpretivist qualitative lens of observation and reflection. Adult Learners in this research include the educators assigned to transmit subject …
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Cultivating a growth mindset within a blended learning environment at a University in South Africa: a design-based research study
… Research study attempts to unlock the spirit of personal empowerment among professional adult learners within the higher educational system through an interpretivist qualitative lens of observation and reflection. Adult Learners in this research include the educators assigned to transmit subject …
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Mentorship expectations differences across generations: A study of South African black women
… of fostering both professional growth and personal empowerment, it needs to be dynamic and evolve with the changing needs of generations. The insights underscore the need for tailored mentorship programs that address the diverse needs of African-Black women.
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Too legit to quit : exploring concepts of legitimacy and power in scaling-up community development work
… Banco Palmas and drawing from the literature on empowerment, it is argued the struggle for legitimacy plays out not only between the Palmas organizations and the local residents association, but also in how new members and non-members interact with and participate, or do not participate, in bank …
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Spousal Well-Being of Service Members With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Qualitative Study
… the process of redefining self, perceptions of personal empowerment and subjective wellbeing. Four key conclusions were identified from these findings: a) mMTBI affects the life of the surviving service member as well as the life of his partner, b) the myriad consequences of combat-related mMTBI …
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‘Talent’ Mentalities: Young People’s Experience of Being in a Sports Talent Development Programme
… by self-regulation and the pursuit of personal empowerment. The research demonstrates that when young people are involved in active decision making about their learning and their lives they feel better respected and understood. Academics and practitioners must now accept a …
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Talking Circles For Adolescent Girls In An Urban High School: A Restorative Practices Program For Building Friendships And Developing Emotional Literacy Skills
… of emotional literacy skills, which led to personal power; personal empowerment gave rise to self-efficacy. It appears this type of out-of-classroom Circle addresses some of the psychosocial and emotional needs of students that are not met in other school venues, and may provide a tool for …
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The Head Start mother: organizational participation and the selves, self-concepts, and empowerment of low-income mothers
… which may lead to changes in self-concepts and personal empowerment. The women identified "mother" as a very important self. Head Start is able to provide an arena where the women can see their self as mother in a positive light. Parental involvement in the program is both expected and …
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