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| + | <div class="teaser-text">In light of the ideal form of participation, the crucial question for facilitators is how to support people to reach the top rungs of the ladder of participation, becoming effective leaders and empowered individuals with their social groups, communities and societies as a whole. Since the possibilities for participation are related to power, the fundamental didactical approach we promote is empowerment.</div> |
| − | <div class="teaser-text">[[File:Competendo-Empowerment.png | right | 200px]]In light of the ideal form of participation, the crucial question for facilitators is how to support people to reach the top rungs of the ladder of participation, becoming effective leaders and empowered individuals with their social groups, communities and societies as a whole. Since the possibilities for participation are related to power, the fundamental didactical approach we promote is empowerment. | |
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| − | On an individual level, empowerment is feeling, accepting, and using one’s individual power to take self-motivated independent action. In education and training, empowerment can be understood as a process of gaining competencies in public social activity, cooperative self-organization, and involvement in public decision-making. Empowerment for successful civil engagement addresses the dimension of power in social activities.</div>
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| | + | ===Empowerment=== |
| | + | Empowerment is a process of promoting competences for public social activity, cooperative organization, and involvement in public decision-making. |
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| − | ==Definition== | + | ===Self-empowerment=== |
| − | Empowerment is a process of promoting skills in public social activity, cooperative organization, and involvement in public decision-making. It deals with questions like:
| + | A self-organised, often informal or non-formal, process of acquiring these competences. |
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| | + | As an approach based on understanding power and power relations it deals with questions like: |
| | *How do you gain power? | | *How do you gain power? |
| | * How do you use power? | | * How do you use power? |
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| | * How can you influence socially relevant conversations and decisions? | | * How can you influence socially relevant conversations and decisions? |
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| − | ==Addressing self-responsibility and autonomy==
| + | On an individual level, empowerment is feeling, accepting, and using one’s individual power in terms of self-responsible independent action. In education and training it can be understood as a process of gaining competencies for public social activity, cooperative self-organization, and involvement in any public decision-making. |
| − | On an individual level empowerment is feeling, accepting, and using one’s individual power in terms of self-responsible independent action. In education and training it can be understood as a process of gaining competencies for public social activity, cooperative self-organization, and involvement in any public decision-making. | |
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| + | In this sense, not all empowerment is citizenship education. Many activities are the result of self-learning and self-organisation. But an understanding of empowerment as ''learning'' and of civic action as ''active learning'' might support these processes. |
| − | Empowerment can happen at different stages of an initiative, project, or organizational development and can be manifested in various ways. When empowering people we:
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| − | * help them to gain [[Transversal or Key Competences | key competences]] required for completing certain tasks and challenges, concrete [[Civic Competences | civic competences]]
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| − | * advocate for a better quality of participation
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| − | * organize learning processes according to modern [[Method Mix | didactical principles]]
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| − | === [[Power]]===
| + | In the context of competency-centered civic education, empowerment is a requirement and goal for participatory learning processes and trainings. |
| − | [[File:Article.png | left]]Power is the ability to actively influence the decision-making capacity of an individual, a group, or a whole society and to affect the way relevant socio-political topics are discussed among citizens.
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| | + | ==Participation and Empowerment in Education== |
| | + | Viewed through an empowerment lens, participation is measured by the extent to which learners are able to actively influence what is learned and how. In particular, it depends on their opportunities to self-organise, on opportunities to participate and negotiate, or on the relation between facilitators and learners. |
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| − | === [[Participation]]===
| + | In the ideal both would negotiate and agree commonly about the learning process, which implies that facilitators should have a clear understanding of themselves as supporters (helping learners to act autonomously including increasing their self-competence). |
| − | [[File:Article.png | left]] Participation refers to the different mechanisms people use to express their opinions and to influence the decision-making that takes place in different spheres (political, social, economic, etc.) and at different social levels.
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| − | [[File:Article.png | left]]Empowerment equips participants with the competencies needed to make an impact in their communities as a group. Cooperative learning is an approach which supports this by encouraging group interaction in the learning process.
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| | + | As such they are not learners and have specific responsibility and influence (power critical self-reflection, accountability). On the other hand participatory facilitation requires facilitators perceiving themselves and acting as equal partners to learners (horizontal collaboration). |
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| | + | ===Articles: === |
| | + | * [[Constructive Relation]] - between facilitators and learners |
| | + | * [[Cooperative Learning]] - creating cooperative settings |
| | + | * [[Learning to Learn]] - addressing self competence and learners' autonomy |
| | + | * [[Participation]] - levels of participation |
| | + | * [[Power]] - power dimensions |
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| − | === [[Why do people get involved?]]=== | + | ===Further Reading: === |
| − | [[File:Article.png | left]]Let’s face it: inspiring teachers, facilitators, and other people are not the only reason why students and participants get socially involved. People have many different reasons for working for the social good – psychological advantages, internalized values, social norms, or (in)direct profit. | + | * Calvès, Anne-Emmanuèle. (2009). [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282978215_Empowerment_The_History_of_a_Key_Concept_in_Contemporary_Development_Discourse Empowerment: The History of a Key Concept in Contemporary Development Discourse]. Revue Tiers-Monde. 200. |
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In light of the ideal form of participation, the crucial question for facilitators is how to support people to reach the top rungs of the ladder of participation, becoming effective leaders and empowered individuals with their social groups, communities and societies as a whole. Since the possibilities for participation are related to power, the fundamental didactical approach we promote is empowerment.
Empowerment
Empowerment is a process of promoting competences for public social activity, cooperative organization, and involvement in public decision-making.
Self-empowerment
A self-organised, often informal or non-formal, process of acquiring these competences.
As an approach based on understanding power and power relations it deals with questions like:
- How do you gain power?
- How do you use power?
- How do you shape power relations?
- How can you influence socially relevant conversations and decisions?
On an individual level, empowerment is feeling, accepting, and using one’s individual power in terms of self-responsible independent action. In education and training it can be understood as a process of gaining competencies for public social activity, cooperative self-organization, and involvement in any public decision-making.
In this sense, not all empowerment is citizenship education. Many activities are the result of self-learning and self-organisation. But an understanding of empowerment as learning and of civic action as active learning might support these processes.
In the context of competency-centered civic education, empowerment is a requirement and goal for participatory learning processes and trainings.
Participation and Empowerment in Education
Viewed through an empowerment lens, participation is measured by the extent to which learners are able to actively influence what is learned and how. In particular, it depends on their opportunities to self-organise, on opportunities to participate and negotiate, or on the relation between facilitators and learners.
In the ideal both would negotiate and agree commonly about the learning process, which implies that facilitators should have a clear understanding of themselves as supporters (helping learners to act autonomously including increasing their self-competence).
As such they are not learners and have specific responsibility and influence (power critical self-reflection, accountability). On the other hand participatory facilitation requires facilitators perceiving themselves and acting as equal partners to learners (horizontal collaboration).
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