Beyond empowerment: Changing local communities

Jönsson, Jessica H.

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“…With the empowerment strategy and the principles of empowerment, the community can have knowledge, skills, experience, and independence. If empowerment strategies seek to have an emancipatory effect on people who are marginalized and discriminated against, they must go beyond developmental goals, such as higher productivity, higher consumption and higher formal education (Jönsson, 2010).…”

Section: The Concept Of Community Empowerment For Alumni Of Courses Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Business and Industry World Contributions to Community Empowerment

Herwina¹,

Mustakim²

2019

Journal of Nonformal Education

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The development of the business and the industry world goes hand in hand with the development of education in society. Education plays an important role in improving people's life skills. The purpose of this study is to describe the contribution of the business world and the world of industry in community empowerment, and to describe the concept of community empowerment for alumni of the Yuwita training and course institution, Tasikmalaya City, West Java. This study uses a qualitative method with a descriptive approach. The techniques used in collecting research data are observation techniques, in-depth interviews, and documentation. Whereas for checking the validity of the data the researcher uses data validity criteria to support that this research has credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmation. The results of the study illustrate that the business and the industry world (DUDI) contribute to the empowerment of alumni communities in courses and training in skin beauty. DUDI's contribution to community empowerment manifests itself in increasing independence, the formation of study groups, competencies that are in accordance with the Indonesian National Qualification Framework Standard (SKKNI). Increasing entrepreneurship based on regional potential, increasing skills, knowledge and attitudes. And increasing economic capacity, ability to access welfare benefits, and cultural and political abilities. A partnership between courses and training institutions with DUDI was realized. Collaboration in technology transfer, knowledge/skills transfer, human resource transfer, transfer of learning methods, and capital transfers, as well as business opportunities.

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Section: The Concept Of Community Empowerment For Alumni Of Courses Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Business and Industry World Contributions to Community Empowerment

Herwina¹,

Mustakim²

2019

Journal of Nonformal Education

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“…It also affects the well-being of families, especially regarding young people educational attainments. The empowerment of marginalised communities should be implemented through the development program with an effective approach to education (Jonsson, 2010;Pimparé, 2005). One way to empower this marginalised community is through Literacy Advocacy Program.…”

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INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION: EXPERIENCE OF CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WITH ORANG SUNGAI IN PAITAN, SABAH

Mohamad¹,

Ali²

2017

AJCE

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The level of literacy among rural communities is still relatively low in Malaysia even though the overall country's literacy rate is considerably high. Literacy rates among indigenous people are lowest in remote communities, especially in Sabah and Sarawak. This is due to reasons like low literacy among the parents and poor school attendance. There have been initiatives attempt to bring literacy level of the indigenous communities to a similar level to that of their non-indigenous peers. Adopting Community Participation Action Research, this study aims to develop and implement a community engagement project through the Literacy Advocacy Program among Orang Sungai who dwells in remote areas in Sabah. Data were gathered through community asset-mapping form on 187 community members and focus group discussion with the community teachers (n=6). The findings of the asset mapping exercise showed that almost 40% of the Orang Sungai did not attend any formal education. A total of 66% of household heads have no formal occupation, and the most common profession is farming. Reasons include the inability to read, write or count. The findings also showed that there is a need for community literacy program to empower the community in the development of the nation. Therefore, the Literacy Advocacy Program was planned to use a set of Literacy Advocacy Module. The module consists of 13 sub-modules which require a total of 42-hours of adult learning hours. Conducted in the community hall, this program was participated by 21 community members. The community teachers to carry out the program learning activities were appointed by locally trained teachers. Upon completion of the program, participants underwent an oral assessment to measure the effectiveness of the program. The program has shown effective impacts on the adult learning process and the community at large. It has implications on extending the similar format to other marginalised communities in Malaysia.

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“…These calls can be understood as responses to the gaps in the current literature in international social work and to criticisms of international social work's approach to development (Jonsson, 2010;Kreitzer and Wilson, 2010) and human rights (Haug, 2005). A key component of these critiques of this dominant international social work perspective is the lack of attention to historic and current structural inequalities that impede global justice and to the privilege and power held by social workers from the global North.…”

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Globalization, power and resistance: Postcolonial and transnational feminist perspectives for social work practice

Deepak

2011

International Social Work

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Postcolonial and transnational feminist perspectives on globalization, power and resistance can transform our approach to human rights and development in international social work. This analysis of globalization as historical, gendered and complicated by cross-cutting power dynamics from the personal to the national to the global allows a nuanced approach that is in solidarity with the perspectives of stakeholders in the global South and marginalized populations in the global North.

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Beyond empowerment: Changing local communities

Cited by 28 publications

References 19 publications

Business and Industry World Contributions to Community Empowerment

Business and Industry World Contributions to Community Empowerment

INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION: EXPERIENCE OF CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WITH ORANG SUNGAI IN PAITAN, SABAH

Globalization, power and resistance: Postcolonial and transnational feminist perspectives for social work practice

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