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Revision as of 09:03, 14 August 2018
Definition
Empowerment is a process of promoting (and self-empowerment a process of aquiring) competences for public social activity, cooperative organization, and involvement in public decision-making. 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?
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.
Collaboration and Cooperation
Empowerment can happen at different stages of an initiative, project, or organizational development and can be manifested in various ways. When empowering people we:
- shape opportunities for them to take responsibility
- help them to gain key competences required for completing certain tasks and challenges, concrete civic competences
- advocate for a better quality of participation
- organize learning processes according to modern didactical principles
Empowerment is a process of gaining competencies for public social activity, cooperative selforganization and involvement in any public decision-making.