Empowerment through agency enhancement : an interdisciplinary exploration /: an interdisciplinary exploration. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mine Sato, Nobuo Sayanagi, Toru Yanagihara.
• Authors: Sato, Mine; Sayanagi, Nobuo; Yanagihara, Toru
• Contents: 1 Introduction: What Moves Researchers to Take Initiatives to This Interdisciplinary Research ProjectPart I Understanding Agency and Its Development 2 Beyond Aloof Cynicism: A Critical Overview of Anthropological Perspectives on Agency and Its Development 3 A Psychological Perspective on Agency in the Context of Behavior Change 4 Agency as Base for 'Bounded Rationality', Core of 'Human Capital', and Key to 'Human Capabilities' Part II Enhancing Agency: Its Plausible Mechanisms and Influential Factors 5 What Is Done for Facilitating Agency Development in Practice?: Documenting and Crystallizing an Unsung Practical Knowledge of a Third-Country Expert 6 Breaking the Poverty Trap: A Psychological Framework for Sustainably Facilitating Agency and Behavior Change in Development Aid Beneficiaries 7 User-Centered Approaches to Service Transactions and Agency of Service Users Part III Visualizing and Measuring Agency 8 Writing, Telling, Expressing Self in Association with Others: Revisiting and Examining Life Record Movement as an Origin of Story-Based Methods in Japan 9 The Psychological Measurement of Agency: Recent Developments and Challenges of Psychometrics in Poverty Contexts 10 Visualization of the Stages of Agency Development 11 Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 128.4; Agent (Philosophy); Power (Social sciences)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811912276
• Related ISBNs: 9789811912269
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