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Eger, Claudia, Miller, Graham and Scarles, Caroline (2018) Gender and capacity building : a multi-layered study of empowerment. World Development, 106 . pp. 207-219. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.01.024 ISSN 1873-5991.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.01.024
Abstract
This study shifts the focus from building individual capacities to understanding the relational acts through which empowerment and education acquire their value and meaning. Conceptually, the paper employs social cognitive theory to explore the interplay between social learning, relational agency, and culture. This interplay builds the foundation for the development of an empowerment model of capacity building that proposes an interlinked system of community capacity and empowerment dimensions. The model is explored in the context of the Education for All project in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The research combines participant observation, qualitative interviews and visual methods to provide rich insights to situated knowledges of learning and empowerment. Findings reveal that the meaning of education equates to the capacity to aspire to a different life. This problematizes the way gender and gender relations are understood in the rural Berber villages. The girls’ education unsettles the repeating cycle of female educational deprivation, and leads them to become role models within their communities. This instills the image of educated women in community consciousness, leading to an incipient change in perceptions of what girls and women can be and do.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Sex role -- Research -- High Atlas Mountains (Morocco), Power (Social sciences), Social cognitive theory, Education, Ambition | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | World Development | ||||||||
Publisher: | Pergamon | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1873-5991 | ||||||||
Official Date: | June 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 106 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 207-219 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.01.024 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 June 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 June 2018 | ||||||||
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