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Tariq, Rehan; Zeib, Fakhta – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2023
Despite recent efforts to examine the political outcomes of social media use, little is known about the reinforcement of political empowerment and moderating effect of political interest. It is vital to understand the elements that influence the level of political empowerment. Therefore, this paper used a sample of Pakistani voters (n=410) aged…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Voting, Empowerment, Social Media
Sadia Anwar; Ummi Naiemah Saraih – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Numerous studies have been conducted on psychological empowerment's effects on individual and organizational outcomes. This research study investigates the effects of emotional intelligence (EI) on psychological empowerment (PE) directly and indirectly through digital leadership (DL) in higher educational institutions (HEIs) in Pakistan.…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Psychological Patterns, Empowerment, Higher Education
Edda Sant; Gustavo González-Valencia; Ghazal Shaikh; Antoni Santisteban; Marta da Costa; Chris Hanley; Ian Davies – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
This paper is a theoretical contribution to discussions about the emancipatory potential of citizenship education across four sites (i.e. Catalonia, Colombia, England, and Pakistan). By reflecting on policy and empirical data from our four contexts of study, we discuss whether citizenship education manifests different conditions of emancipatory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Educational Policy, Barriers
Qurat Ul Ain Saleem; Kanwal Ameen – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the perception of female employees regarding workplace empowerment. The study also emphasized the alleged advantages of employee empowerment in the workplace and pinpointed the barriers to empowerment. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based on qualitative data collected, through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Employee Attitudes, Academic Libraries
Katrina Barnes; Rebecca Daltry; Amy Ashlee; Aime Parfait Emerusenge; Khalid Khan; Asma Rabi; Aimée Mukankusi; Julia Pacitto; David Hollow; Bethany Sikes – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2023
Involving young refugees in the research process has significant potential to address current gaps in refugee research in a rigorous, equitable, and empowering way (Clark 2004; Haile, Meloni, and Rezaie 2020). This field note is a report on Voices of Refugee Youth, a research initiative in Pakistan and Rwanda that aims to build the evidence base…
Descriptors: Youth, Refugees, Empowerment, Researchers
Iqra Sageer; Amarah Qureshi – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2023
The current study aimed to see the relationship between psychological empowerment and employees' engagement in school teachers to enhance teaching quality and overall educational effectiveness. The study hypothesized that (a) there would be a positive relationship between psychological empowerment and employee engagement in public and private…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Private Schools
Kiran Qasim Ali; Aly Jafferani – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
Scaffolded faculty development is a recognized approach for enhancing teaching practices. Aga Khan University (AKU) adopted this method to elevate the quality of teaching and learning practices, promote a culture of excellence in higher education, and establish a sustainable faculty development model. AKU's scaffolded faculty development approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods
Aqsa Jaleel; Muhammad Sarmad – Learning Organization, 2024
Purpose: How leaders' empowerment impacts followers' job performance in learning organizations seeks much attention. Under the lens of self-determination theory, this research examines the mediating role of work-related curiosity between empowering leadership and job-crafting behaviors. Furthermore, by applying trait activation theory, this study…
Descriptors: Leaders, Empowerment, Job Performance, Organizational Learning
Roshana Kamran; Edgar A. Burns; Sheba Sultan; Sana Tahir; Sumaira Ashraf – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
Women in Pakistan's higher education face barriers that silence their voices from reporting experiences of being bullied by colleagues and superiors. This situation contradicts universities' role as houses of learning and agents of progressively improving culture and society. This group autoethnography presents three accounts by women academics…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Females, College Faculty, Work Environment
Asma Zulfiqar; Ella Kuskoff – Gender and Education, 2024
Current international discourse foregrounds gender parity in education as a means of empowering women in societies with strong adherence to traditional gender norms, such as Pakistan. This discourse contends that women's access to higher education and subsequent employment enables them to identify and reject traditional cultural values and norms.…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Females, Womens Education, High Achievement
Taylor, Shira B.; Calzavara, Liviana; Kontos, Pia; Schwartz, Robert – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Despite rising rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and inequitable access to education and services, few studies have addressed the unique sex education needs of newcomer youth in Canada and other increasingly demographically diverse Western countries. This study involved the design, implementation and evaluation of a novel and…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Theater Arts, Cultural Relevance, Empowerment
Imran, Muhammad; Akhtar, Samina; Chen, Yuee; Ahmad, Shabbir – SAGE Open, 2021
This article aims at investigating the relevance of a gender perspective in societies where women are mainly responsible for the household and childcare. For this purpose, the activities of two environmental and women's empowerment--related nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from Pakistan, Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Females, Feminism
Commonwealth of Learning, 2021
The Reaching the Unreached--Scale-Up (RtU-S) project was launched in 2018 and completed in 2021. It was an extension of the Reaching the Unreached project (RtU) and sought to expand the success of the initial project in providing hard-to-reach women and girls with education and economic opportunities. RtU-S continued its activities in Bangladesh,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Empowerment, Educational Opportunities
Pelleboer-Gunnink, Hannah A.; van Oorsouw, Wietske M. W. J.; van Weeghel, Jaap; Embregts, Petri J. C. M. – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Objectives: Care providers are key agents in the lives of individuals with an intellectual disability (ID). The quality of their support can be affected by manifestations of stigma. This scoping review was conducted to explore studies that provide indications of care providers' stigmatization of people with ID. Methods: A structured search was…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Social Bias, Caregiver Attitudes, Caregivers
Rafique, Aqila; Akhtar, Mahr Muhammad Saeed – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2020
Teacher Empowerment (TE) is not a broadly investigated idea in Educational studies, therefore, this concept is still under examination and indefinable as ever. It is a vibrant component of effective management in universities. The current research is an endeavor to examine the Teacher Empowerment as perceived by the teachers working in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Attitudes