Emancipatory Social Work Education and Community Empowerment

Patient empowerment: emancipatory or technological practice?

OBJECTIVE To describe the meaning of the theme of empowerment from research on health promotion in nursing from the perspective of nurses participating in the study. METHODS Manual data analysis and QSR NUD*IST Vivo were used to analyse the data generated by individual and focus group interviews and the critical incident technique with 32 qualified nurses working in an acute hospital setting ...

Perspectives on the Community Education Model of Social Work: Implications for Education and Practice

The purpose of this paper is to construct perspectives on community education as a model of community work by unpacking the knowledge of community education that exists in social work, and packaging it in the context of social work’s response to contemporary risk issues, in order to identify implications for social work education and practice. This is done by motivating the addressing of risk i...

Conflict Theories and Social Work Education

Health education and community empowerment: conceptualizing and measuring perceptions of individual, organizational, and community control.

The prevailing emphasis in health education is on understanding and changing life-style choices and individual health behaviors related to health status. Although such approaches are appropriate for some health problems, they often ignore the association between increased morbidity and mortality and social, structural, and physical factors in the environment, such as inadequate housing, poor sa...

women’s social capital situation in work and production community

social capital has become an important subject in recent decade and is seriously considered in the physical and human capital, moreover, this complex, multi-faceted concept is one of the most important dynamic elements of social, cultural, economic concept in any society, organization and institution. in addition, one of the most important criteria to measure the degree of development of a coun...