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ERIC Number: EJ381376
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Empowerment Education: Freire's Ideas Adapted to Health Education.
Wallerstein, Nina; Bernstein, Edward
Health Education Quarterly, v15 n4 p379-94 Win 1988
This article contains three sections: (1) a literature review demonstrating that powerlessness is linked to disease and empowerment to health; (2) an exposition of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire's empowering education theory with a comparison to traditional health education; and (3) a case study of an empowering education substance abuse prevention program. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Empowerment, Health Education, Health Promotion, Individual Power, Literature Reviews, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Substance Abuse
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Freire (Paulo); New Mexico