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Technology and Vocational Education for Sustainable Development - Empowering Individuals for the Future (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
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Technology and Vocational Education for Sustainable Development - Empowering Individuals for the Future (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Series: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 10
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Empowerment is the overarching idea used in this book. The term has
a variety of meanings in different sociocultural and political
contexts, including "self-strength, control, self-power,
self-reliance, own choice, life of dignity in accordance with one's
values, capable of fighting for one's rights, independence, own
decision making, being free, awakening, and capability" (The World
Bank, 2002, p. 10). However, the World Bank report observed that
most definitions focus on issues of "gaining power and control over
decisions and resources that determine the quality of one's life"
(p. 10). This interpretation of empowerment provides a useful
starting point for the development of the series of interconnected
arguments explored here. Establishment of the basis for
understanding, identifying and developing strategies through
education necessary for individuals to be able to make choices that
inf- ence the quality of their lives is the main aim of this book.
There are a number of assumptions and boundaries that frame this
analysis. First, the book focuses on "agents"; however, empowerment
is often conceptualised in terms of relationships between agency
and structure (e. g. , Alsop, Bertelsen, & H- land, 2006).
Agency could be defined as "an actor's or group's ability to make
purposeful choices - that is, the actor is able to envisage and
purposively choose options" (p. 11).
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