The notions of resilience that have emerged in developmental psychology and psychiatry in recent years require systematic rethinking to address the distinctive cultures, geographic and social settings, and histories of adversity of indigenous peoples. In Canada, the overriding social realities of indigenous peoples include their historical rootedness to a specific place (with traditional lands,...

11 The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of institutional actions from the standpoint of cognitive science. The notion of con12 stitutive rules have been proposed to describe the conceptual nature of institutions. In this paper it is extended to cover specific processes 13 of ‘recognition’ that provide the agents with additional artificial powers. The power of doing an institutional a...

In China, a few posts related to #MeToo movement survived and remained online well after its peak the state’s response in July 2018. This article proposes theoretical framework that pays attention discursive meaning-making employs broad notion of empowerment, referred as ‘empowerment through discourse’, order offer more nuanced understanding low-profile Chinese context. is used analyse corpus u...

In an era of big data, harms caused by data technologies can no longer be effectively addressed under the predominant regulatory paradigm individual empowerment. Even a sophisticated consumer cannot fully protect herself against collective triggered others’ privacy choices or creating competitive harm without processing personal targeting individuals. While protection and competition law applie...

Most research to date has approached employee empowerment as an individual-level phenomenon. In this study we proposed a work-unit-level construct, empowerment climate, and tested a multiple-level model integrating macro and micro approaches to empowerment. Empowerment climate was shown to be empirically distinct from psychological empowerment and positively related to manager ratings of work-u...

In this paper I explore the meaning of empowerment in the teaching and learning of mathematics. The main part of the paper is devoted to distinguishing three different but complementary meanings of empowerment concerning mathematics: mathematical, social and epistemological empowerment. Mathematical empowerment concerns gaining the power to use mathematical knowledge and skills in school mathem...

Point-of-sale (POS) advertising at retail stores is one of the key marketing avenues used by the tobacco industry. The United States Surgeon General urges actions to eliminate POS tobacco advertisements because of their influence on youth smoking. Many youth empowerment programs are implemented to address tobacco industry marketing influences, including POS tobacco advertisements. While youth a...