Download or read book Empowering Transformations written by Maria Lassén-Seger and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norwegian author Alf Prøysen’s feisty little old Mrs Pepperpot appeared for the first time in print in 1955. Translated into well over twenty languages, the now classic Mrs Pepperpot stories have, so far, received surprisingly little critical attention. Empowering Transformations: Mrs Pepperpot Revisited fills that long over-due gap by providing a range of essays written by experts in the field. The volume explores Prøysen’s heroine in dialogue with recent theorising in order to broaden and deepen the understanding of her enduring popularity. The study introduces Prøysen’s works and career to an international readership, but also delves deeper into the Mrs Pepperpot phenomenon. Her character is analysed in view of metamorphosis, power, gender, and queer theory, and the stories’ ethical impact is assessed through the use of cognitive literary theory. Mrs Pepperpot’s many transformations into other media (illustration, sculpture, radio, TV, and Advent Calendar) are also considered, as well as her relations to nature, animals and technology, which are approached eco- and techno-critically. The volume appeals to an academic readership interested in literature, children’s literature, media studies, cultural studies and Scandinavian studies, as well as the general public celebrating Prøysen’s 100th anniversary in 2014.
Download or read book Empowering Transformations for Women written by Sue Urda and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowering Transformations For Women contains stories of 40 incredible women who've navigated their way through significant, life-altering transformations. These women-many inspired by their less-than-ideal circumstances--stumbled along the way, but ended up facing the change with humor, grace and dignity. In this book, they share their stories in order to ease your personal journey, and to provide necessary motivation and inspiration to make whatever empowering changes you envision for your own life. These stories, filled with insights and raw emotion, illustrate how others like you made lasting changes to enhance their lives. Used as an inspirational guide, these stories reinforce that you are not alone, and that if you trust your own innate intuition, you can successfully make the same types of empowering changes. As you read and allow yourself to feel blessed and grateful, you will more clearly understand the power behind the concept that we are "all-one" as we move through this life. In This Book You'll Discover These Lessons of Transformation: How to listen to the voice of your spirit Tap into your passion and live your life on purpose Step out of your job and into entrepreneurial freedom Release the past so you can move forward with ease Discover techniques to relieve stress, tension and overwhelm Heal your body through mind-body-spirit modalities Use truth as a guide for business, personal and spiritual growth Gracefully manage divorce, break-ups and abandonment Experience total freedom regardless of your circumstances Recognize that some hardships can lead to great joy How to spot your Angels of assistance!
Download or read book Empowering Creativity Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurial Transformation with Disabled Union Through Batik Art written by Muhibbudin Fadhli and published by CV. Gracias Logis Kreatif. This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins with an explanation of the concept of inclusive innovation, defined as the development and implementation of new ideas, products, services, and processes that aim to meet the needs and improve the well-being of marginalized or underserved populations. Inclusive innovation seeks to ensure that the benefits of innovation are shared across society, including those who are often excluded from mainstream economic and technological progress, including students with disabilities. This concept is critical to creating a more just and equitable society. By focusing on the needs of underserved populations and ensuring that the benefits of innovation are shared widely, inclusive innovation can drive sustainable development and improve the quality of life for all. Addressing challenges and promoting strategies that support inclusivity in the innovation process will be key to achieving these goals. The book highlights the role of students with disabilities in developing innovative solutions, emphasizing their contribution to fostering inclusivity in society. The book provides examples of innovations that were originally designed for people with disabilities but were later universally adopted, highlighting the importance of products that are universally designed to accommodate all abilities.
Download or read book Empowering Ourselves and Transforming Schools written by Judith W. Irwin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-09-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this readable and ground-breaking text, Irwin examines the forces that keep educators and students from feeling fully empowered. She defines empowerment as gaining the power to self-actualize and to facilitate this for others. Grounding her arguments in feminist and critical examinations of domination, Irwin begins by defining empowerment as fundamentally opposed to domination. She then examines the implications of this definition for our educational system. This book encourages the reader to consider new directions for educational reform and synthesizes current innovations under the umbrella philosophy of empowerment, suggesting how the change from the patriarchal paradigm to one based on cooperation and connection might revolutionize the organization of schools and their classrooms. The reader is challenged to develop his or her own philosophy and agenda for change through a series of reflective activities. A comparative case study of five "empowered" teachers is included to demonstrate that empowerment is an individual as well as a collective process.
Download or read book Transforming Power written by Seth Kreisberg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1991-11-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about power — power in the classroom, in our schools, and in our society. Schools, teachers, students, and teaching exist in a churning cauldron of interrelated institutions and social forces. Power relations in schools reflect these larger societal forces and the interconnections of our institutions. This book is also about empowerment — the empowerment of teachers and students. It explores the process through which people develop more control over their lives and acquire the skills and dispositions necessary to be critical and effective participants in our society. The heart of this book, and Kreisberg's unique contribution to the empowerment literature, is his elucidation of the difference between power over and power with in his search to understand the nature of power that can empower individuals and communities. Kreisberg draws upon educational, political, feminist, and psychological theory, and, especially, the voices of teachers, in his framing of the question: What are the dynamics of power that we as teachers can create in our relationships with our students that will be empowering for both our students and ourselves?
Download or read book Mindset shift transforming limiting beliefs into empowering ones written by George Wilton and published by Az Boek. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empowering Change A Project Manager s Perspective on the Disability Sector in Ireland written by Sean O'Connor and published by Sean O'Connor. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disability sector in Ireland plays a crucial role in ensuring the well-being and inclusion of individuals with disabilities. As a project manager in the National Clinical Programme for People with Disability, my perspective offered a unique insight into the challenges, opportunities, and transformative initiatives within the sector. In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the disability sector holds a significant place, with its focus on empowering individuals with disabilities to lead fulfilling and inclusive lives. As a project manager in the National Clinical Programme for People with Disability, I was at the forefront of driving positive change in this crucial sector in Ireland. This book serves as a comprehensive and in-depth guide, offering a unique perspective from my role within the Programme. It delves into the challenges faced, the remarkable achievements realized, and the profound impact witnessed as we work towards transforming the lives of individuals with disabilities.
Download or read book Empowering Open and Collaborative Governance written by Yannis Charalabidis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of information and communication technologies to support public administrations, governments and decision makers has been recorded for more than 20 years and dubbed e-Government. Moving towards open governance roadmaps worldwide, electronic participation and citizen engagement stand out as a new domain, important both for decision makers and citizens; and over the last decade, there have been a variety of related pilot projects and innovative approaches. With contributions from leading researchers, Charalabidis and Koussouris provide the latest research findings such as theoretical foundations, principles, methodologies, architectures, technical frameworks, cases and lessons learnt within the domain of open, collaborative governance and online citizen engagement. The book is divided into three sections: Section one, “Public Policy Debate Foundations,” lays the foundations regarding processes and methods for scoping, planning, evaluating and transforming citizen engagement. The second section, “Information and Communication Technologies for Citizen Participation,” details practical approaches to designing and creating collaborative governance infrastructures and citizen participation for businesses and administrations. Lastly, the third section on “Future Research Directions of Open, Collaborative ICT-enabled Governance” provides a constructive critique of the developments in the past and presents prospects regarding future challenges and research directions. The book is mainly written for academic researchers and graduate students working in the computer, social, political and management sciences. Its audience includes researchers and practitioners in e-Governance, public administration officials, policy and decision makers at the local, national and international level engaged in the design and creation of policies and services, and ICT professionals engaged in e-Governance and policy modelling projects and solutions.
Download or read book Social Transformations in India Myanmar and Thailand Volume I written by Chosein Yamahata and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-02 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book focuses on the different challenges and opportunities for social transformation in India, Myanmar and Thailand, by centering communities and individuals as the main drivers of change. In doing so, it includes discussions on a wide array of issues including women’s empowerment and political participation, ethno-religious tensions, plurilingualism, education reform, community-based healthcare, climate change, disaster management, ecological systems, and vulnerability reduction. Two core foundations are introduced for ensuring broader transformations. The first is the academic diplomacy project – a framework for an engaged academic enquiry focusing on causative, curative, transformative, and promotive factors. The second is a community driven collective struggle that serves as a grassroots possibility to facilitate positive social transformation by using locally available resources and enabling the participation of the resident population. As a whole, the book conveys the importance of a diversification of engagement at the grassroots level to strengthen the capacity of individuals as decisive stakeholders, where the process of social transformation makes communities more interconnected, interdependent, multicultural and vital in building an inclusive society.”
Download or read book Empowering Electricity written by Julie L. MacArthur and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada is known for being an energy-producing nation – with much attention being paid to the Alberta tar sands and their large carbon footprint. This book looks at a very different part of the Canadian energy sector: the hundreds of renewable energy co-ops that have sprung up across the nation. These co-ops are democratically structured, community-based organizations that use sun, wind, rivers, tides, and plant and animal waste as sources of local power generation. Empowering Electricity offers an illuminating analysis of these co-ops within the context of larger debates over climate change, renewable electricity policy, sustainable community development, and provincial power-sector ownership. It looks at the conditions that led to this new wave of co-operative development, examines their form and location, and shines a light on the promises and challenges accompanying their development.
Download or read book Transforming Government and Empowering Communities written by Nagy Hanna and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A case study of why and how national e-leadership institutions, e-government and e-society programs were designed and implemented. The book examines the process of building national ICT institutions, showing how to design and implement an integrated e-government program. The book describes how a fund was developed to promote grassroots innovations that leverage ICT to solve problems of rural development and poverty. The book proposes national e-strategies be grounded in an integrated framework and institutional mechanisms that would exploit synergies and interdependencies among the different e.
Download or read book Gendering the Recession written by Diane Negra and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely, necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes, including crisis masculinity, coping women, and postfeminist self-renewal. Interpreting media forms as diverse as reality television, financial journalism, novels, lifestyle blogs, popular cinema, and advertising, the contributors reveal gendered narratives that recur across media forms too often considered in isolation from one another. They also show how, with a few notable exceptions, recession-era popular culture promotes affective normalcy and transformative individual enterprise under duress while avoiding meaningful critique of the privileged white male or the destructive aspects of Western capitalism. By acknowledging the contradictions between political rhetoric and popular culture, and between diverse screen fantasies and lived realities, Gendering the Recession helps to make sense of our postboom cultural moment. Contributors. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Hamilton Carroll, Hannah Hamad, Anikó Imre, Suzanne Leonard, Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Sinéad Molony, Elizabeth Nathanson, Diane Negra, Tim Snelson, Yvonne Tasker, Pamela Thoma
Download or read book The Work of Art written by Michael D. Jackson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are we to think of works of art? Rather than treat art as an expression of individual genius, market forces, or aesthetic principles, Michael Jackson focuses on how art effects transformations in our lives. Art opens up transitional, ritual, or utopian spaces that enable us to reconcile inward imperatives and outward constraints, thereby making our lives more manageable and meaningful. Art allows us to strike a balance between being actors and being acted upon. Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork in Aboriginal Australia and West Africa, as well as insights from psychoanalysis, religious studies, literature, and the philosophy of art, Jackson deploys an extraordinary range of references—from Bruegel to Beuys, Paleolithic art to performance art, Michelangelo to Munch—to explore the symbolic labor whereby human beings make themselves, both individually and socially, out of the environmental, biographical, and physical materials that affect them: a process that connects art with gestation, storytelling, and dreaming and illuminates the elementary forms of religious life.
Download or read book Empowering Mathematics Learners Yearbook 2017 Association Of Mathematics Educators written by Berinderjeet Kaur and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes towards the literature in the field of mathematics education, specifically on aspects of empowering learners of mathematics. The book, comprising eighteen chapters, written by renowned researchers in mathematics education, provides readers with approaches and applicable classroom strategies to empower learners of mathematics.The chapters in the book can be classified into four sections. The four sections focus on how learners could be empowered in their learning, cognitive and affective processes, through mathematical content, purposefully designed mathematical tasks, whilst developing 21st century competencies.
Download or read book Kindle the Light Within Empower and Transform The Mind Vol 2 written by Dr. Suresh Bansal and published by StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the intricate workings of the human mind, exploring its composition and dynamic interplay with external influences. This book unravels the profound interconnectedness of the brain, mind, and body, shedding light on universal consciousness, knowledge, wisdom, and dynamism. Objective and goal: Achieve personal growth, fulfilment, and lasting happiness. Regularly assess alignment with passion, strengths, values, and purpose for optimal self-realization. Approach: Engage readers with insightful tools, guiding them on a transformative journey toward self-empowerment and a deeper understanding of the mind's capabilities Roadmap: Navigate desire, perseverance, open-mindedness, commitment, and practice as the compass to reach aspirations and unlock full potential Evolution and Composition: Unravel the step-by-step process of self-discovery, concept building, and personal growth Embark on this voyage to unlock the secrets of the mind, paving the way for a purposeful and fulfilled life. Your journey to self-discovery starts now!!
Download or read book Empowering the Poor written by Formisano, Maritza Prada and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Socioeconomic Transformation in South Africa What has not changed two decades into democracy written by Alson Bhebe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a narration of the prevailing socio-economic environment in South Africa. A background is given on how this environment evolved. More than two decades into democracy, the third largest economy in Africa is failing to offer economic independence to its indigenous citizens. It is quite concerning that the economy is creating billionaires by the day whilst the majority of the population is wallowing in poverty. The book discusses how this environment can be changed. A few practical examples are also used to justify assumptions made. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in understanding the socioeconomic environment and interested in influencing a transformational trajectory. The book is written in plain and simple fashion that can be understood by anyone. An Index is included for those seeking to use the book for academic purposes to navigate with ease.
