Gender and capacity building: A multi-layered study of empowerment
从个体能力转向关系性行为，基于社会认知理论构建赋权模型，通过摩洛哥高阿特拉斯山脉的全民教育项目案例，揭示教育如何改变农村女孩的处境并重塑社区对女性的认知。
This study shifts the focus from building individual capacities to understanding the relational acts \nthrough which empowerment and education acquire their value and meaning. Conceptually, the paper \nemploys social cognitive theory to explore the interplay between social learning, relational agency, \nand culture. This interplay builds the foundation for the development of an empowerment model of \ncapacity building that proposes an interlinked system of community capacity and empowerment dimensions. \nThe model is explored in the context of the Education for All project in the High Atlas Mountains of \nMorocco. The research combines participant observation, qualitative interviews and visual methods to \nprovide rich insights to situated knowledges of learning and empowerment. Findings reveal that the \nmeaning of education equates to the capacity to aspire to a different life. This problematizes the way gender \nand gender relations are understood in the rural Berber villages. The girls’ education unsettles the \nrepeating cycle of female educational deprivation, and leads them to become role models within their \ncommunities. This instills the image of educated women in community consciousness, leading to an \nincipient change in perceptions of what girls and women can be and do