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Gender, Power, Gender Socialization, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation: Huh?!

So, this entry basically covers the last two units of our course, the community level change theories and the research, monitoring and evaluation concepts. The gif above pretty much describes my current feeling as I am a bit overwhelmed with the information I just learned, haven’t had the chance to properly digest it yet, so I’ll do my best telling you what I learned so far.

For the community…

Models and Trendsetters: Interpersonal level Change Theories

This week we moved on from individual level change theories to interpersonal level change theories. These set of theories deals with how we interact with other people. There were only two theories for this lesson, the Social Learning Theory and the Diffusion of Innovations Theory.

The Social Learning Theory was a theory proposed by Albert Bandura which shows that people learn through…

Me, Myself and I: Individual level Change Theories

In this week’s unit, we learned about the Individual level change theories. These are theories that help implementers better understand the individual, their attitudes, and behaviors and how an individual reacts to external factors that influence them.

For this week’s unit I learned that there are several factors that guide an individual’s behavior, one being our urge to fulfill our…