Empowerment as a Dynamically Developing Concept for Practice: Lessons Learned from Organizational Ethnography

Social Work

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 32-43

  Bartle, Elizabeth E ^a   Couchonnal, Graciela ^c   Canda, Edward R ^c   Staker, Martha D ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Project EAGLE Community Programs   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Child development; Empowerment; Ethnography; Organizations; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SOCIAL WORK;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHNOLOGY; HUMANS; POVERTY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 0036358509     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/47.1.32     Document Type: Article

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