The present article describes participatory theater as a means of empowering audience individuals to lead social change. The focus on participation by oppressed individuals as a means of organizing for social change was recognized as important by scholars and practitioners, especially by the celebrated Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, and the Brazilian theater activist, Augusto Boal. Here we d...

The 2015 Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics (Code) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) is designed to reflect the dynamic nature of the profession, the evolving health care environment, and emerging technologies that can present potential ethical concerns in research, education, and practice. AOTA members are committed to promoting inclusion, participation, safety, and well...

Empowering citizens in making Governments more accountable and transparent in the services they provide has gained more attention in the last few years both in the developing and in the developed world. At the basis of any such exercise, information and data collection activities play an important role. In this paper we report on a pilot we conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Educat...

Mobile technology benefits education by pervading learning activity, increasing efficiency in learning, empowering learners, enabling distance learning, encouraging real-world interaction and allowing spontaneous collaborations and learning to occur. At the ACET Centre, we are developing a collaborative computing platform, Coco, which builds on peer-to-peer and mobile technology. Coco supports ...

The Internet and other Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), in the form of e-adoption, have been used for social and economic development around the world. Information and Communication Technologies for Development is a growing research area and researchers worldwide have been conducting studies highlighting how the use of the Internet and ICTs are helping in socio-economic develo...

OBJECTIVE To assess acceptability and feasibility of a school-based health care transition education intervention designed to equip adolescents and young adults (A/YA) who have special health care needs with important health literacy, self-advocacy, and self-determination skills. METHODS A qualitative research approach was used to assess a 40-hr curriculum implemented with 137 A/YA in 13 high...