Is Servicelearning "Empowerment" strategies compareable to art education "Empowerment"?
A basic idea in empowerment is that actors gain self-confidence, the ability to act and freedom. However, this also includes the freedom not to have to follow the expectations of guidelines - even if they are formulated with the best of intentions.
As early as 1909, the sociologist Georg Simmel described in his text "Bridge and Door" the strange difference between a bridge on which an encounter is possible without any problems, in that actors can pass unhindered from two sides, and a door where the phenomenon of a certain intention is always already present. Who opens and closes the door? Who goes in and who goes out? Who is inside and who is outside? Who needs help and who offers it? Overcoming this subtle imbalance could be a major concern of contemporary empowerment.
I think these questions move service learning and empowerment in the same way. So what is true for social strategies is also true for culture or art.
Is this comparison interesting for service learning?
see:
Simmel, Georg (1909): Bridge and Door. In: The Day. Moderne illustrierte Zeitung No. 683, Morgenblatt of 15 September 1909, Illustrated Part No. 216, pp. 1-3 (Berlin).
Cf. Wolfram, Gernot (2018/to be published): Empowerment - Die Kunst für sich selbst sprechen. Essay. Federal Agency for Civic Education Bonn/Berlin
my two research papers on empowerment, one in service organizations and the other in education, I hope this helps, best:
Nowak, R. (2019). Developing serving culture: focus on workplace empowerment. Employee Relations: The International Journal.
Nowak, R. (2020). Structural empowerment and serving culture as determinants of organizational identification and turnover intention. Management Research Review.
Hello Wolfgang, I think "Social Inclusion" is the key. Maybe my Publication helps: "Empowerment im inklusiven ästhetisch-künstlerischen Werkstattunterricht: Aktive Gestaltung statt passiver Teilnahme"
- November 2017
- Publisher: fabrico verlag® Hannover
- Editor: Manfred Blohm, Andreas Brenne, Sara Hornäk (Hg.)
- ISBN: ISBN: 978-3-946320-13-5
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