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dc.contributor.authorKuipers, P
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:41:57Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:41:57Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2014-06-05T03:10:29Z
dc.identifier.issn2211-5242
dc.identifier.doi10.5463/dcid.v24i4.274
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/59864
dc.description.abstractPurpose: This paper seeks to contribute to discussion on the understanding and measurement of empowerment of people with disabilities in developing countries. A novel, text analysis approach was used to depict the way in which empowerment is characterised in conventional measures in Western settings. This was then compared with depictions and analyses of the way in which empowerment is characterised in documents that have more relevance to developing countries. Method: First, computer-based content and concept analysis was applied to three key empowerment measures. This was compared with analysis of responses to a recent online survey of empowerment conducted by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA). Visual representations in the form of "word clouds" were generated to depict key concepts within each data source. Second, to provide specific detail regarding how empowerment has been described in documents which relate to developing countries, more detailed computer-assisted lexical analysis was performed on the text of responses to the UN-DESA survey, and on the text of the Empowerment component of the CBR Guidelines. Results: Initial "word clouds" illustrated considerable discrepancy between concepts inherent in the three most relevant empowerment measures when compared with responses to the UN-DESA survey relating to empowerment in a development context. Subsequent lexical analysis depicted greater specificity and ranked the concepts associated with empowerment in key disability and development-related documents. Conclusions: Conventional Western measures of individual empowerment may not adequately encompass the broader social, economic and community orientation of empowerment as described in documents from disability and development circles. Further research is required to substantiate these novel and speculative indications.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherVrije Universiteit e-Publishing
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom24
dc.relation.ispartofpageto42
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalDisability, CBR and Inclusive Development Journal (DCID)
dc.relation.ispartofvolume24
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3202
dc.titleEmpowerment in Community-based Rehabilitation and Disability-inclusive Development
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
gro.facultyGriffith Health, School of Human Services and Social Work
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2013. For information about this journal please refer to the publisher’s website or contact the author[s]. Articles are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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