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Autor/in | Tagoe, Michael |
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Titel | Challenging the Orthodoxy of Literacy: Realities of Moving from Personal to Community Empowerment through "Reflect" in Ghana |
Quelle | In: International Journal of Lifelong Education, 27 (2008) 6, S.707-728 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0260-1370 |
Schlagwörter | Empowerment; Community Development; Self Efficacy; Economic Change; Foreign Countries; Political Issues; Critical Theory; Educational History; Qualitative Research; Evaluation Research; Educational Theories; Females; Poverty; Socioeconomic Influences; Ghana Community; Development; Entwicklung; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Ökonomischer Wandel; Ausland; Politischer Faktor; Kritische Theorie; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Qualitative Forschung; Evaluationsforschung; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Weibliches Geschlecht; Armut; Sozioökonomischer Faktor |
Abstract | In the last decade, the "Reflect" approach--an alternative to the "great divide" theory of literacy--has gained wider currency in developing countries because of its ability to deal with social, cultural and political issues by placing the identification and solution of local problems in the hands of local people. In Ghana, ActionAid International Ghana (AAIG) has supported "Reflect" in the Upper East, Northern, Upper West, Brong Ahafo and Greater Accra regions. An evaluation of the literacy circles showed that whilst women's self-efficacy had increased since joining the literacy circles, the progression from personal to community empowerment has been very slow as communities still perceive AAIG as the "donor" and the communities as "recipients" of funds, rather than become empowered to demand accountability from district assemblies for development projects. Fewer opportunities have been created by communities to facilitate wider socio-economic change where they could use the PRA as a tool to assert their right to development. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided). |
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Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2017/4/10 |