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Empowerment

By: Mandakini Pant
In: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research
Edited by: David Coghlan & Mary Brydon-Miller
Subject:Action Research/Practitioner Inquiry

To empower is to give power or to enable. As a process, empowerment fosters capacities in individuals, groups and communities to make purposive choices and to transform those choices into desired actions ...

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  Pant, M. (2014). Empowerment. In D. Coghlan, & M. Brydon-Miller (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of action research (pp. 291-292). SAGE Publications Ltd, https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406.n122
  
  Pant, Mandakini. "Empowerment." In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research, edited by Coghlan, David, and Mary Brydon-Miller, 291-92. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406.n122.
  
  Pant, M. 2014. Empowerment. In: David Coghlan and Mary Brydon-Miller Editors, 2014. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research, Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd. pp. 291-292 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406.n122> [Accessed 12 Aug 2022].
  
  Pant, Mandakini. "Empowerment." The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research. Edited by David Coghlan and Mary Brydon-Miller. Thousand Oaks,: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014, pp. 291-92. SAGE Knowledge. 12 Aug 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406.n122.
  
  Pant, Mandakini (2014). Empowerment In: Coghlan, David, and Mary Brydon-Miller (Eds.),Empowerment The SAGE encyclopedia of action research Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd; 2014:291-292. doi:10.4135/9781446294406.n122
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