Autonomy: starting point and goal of personal and social change: A constructivist perspective on knowledge management in empowerment processes

Empowerment describes the processes of how to gain and increase autonomy and self-determination in one's own environment. Typical examples for empowerment processes can be found in: citizen's initiatives, human rights movements, and other social movements or self help groups. Here, Schaurh...

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Published in:Kybernetes 2005-01, Vol.34 (1/2), p.261-277
Main Authors: Schaurhofer, Martin, Peschl, Markus F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Knowledge management
Social change
Social structure
Sovereignty
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Summary:Empowerment describes the processes of how to gain and increase autonomy and self-determination in one's own environment. Typical examples for empowerment processes can be found in: citizen's initiatives, human rights movements, and other social movements or self help groups. Here, Schaurhofer and Peschl shows that empowerment processes have to be understood of knowledge management will be established, inspired by Heinz von Foersters ideas of self-regulated processes in nervous systems.
ISSN:0368-492X
1758-7883
DOI:10.1108/03684920510575834