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14 - Nonprofits as Facilitators of National Self-development
from Part III - New Directions
- By Ada Ordor
Edited by Eva Witesman, Brigham Young University, Utah, Curtis Child, Brigham Young University, Utah
Book:

Reimagining Nonprofits

Published online:

11 January 2024

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01 February 2024, pp 273-290
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This chapter introduces a self-development theory of the nonprofit sector, informed by alternative development and basic-needs theory. The theory presented in this chapter suggests that nonprofit law plays a role in creating a legal framework that allows people to participate in the improvement of their own lives and communities through self-development. With a nonprofit-friendly legal environment in place, individuals have greater economic incentive to work within their own communities to create organizations that help individuals, families, and communities to meet their own needs. This paradigm stands in contrast to views of nonprofit organizations as facilitators of rescuing behavior, in which one group of people seeks to uplift another. Based on cases in Nigeria and South Africa, this paper describes the role and importance of nonprofits in facilitating the development of individuals, institutions, and communities from within.

Chapter 3 - Mindful Learning
Jon F. Wergin, Antioch University, Ohio
Book:

Deep Learning in a Disorienting World

Published online:

29 November 2019

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19 December 2019, pp 38-56
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The central message of this chapter is Socrates’ dictum, “know thyself first.” We must know ourselves before presuming to think that we are in any position to influence others. The now-bulging literature on personal and organization development is explored and some integrating principles are offered for understanding how deep learning can be developed in ourselves and others. This includes cultivating mindfulness, a practice that allows us to interrupt knee-jerk reactions to stimuli that might lead to the assortment of cognitive biases that stand in the way of deep learning.

Imitation and Identification in Autism
R. Peter Hobson, Anthony Lee
Journal:

The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines / Volume 40 / Issue 4 / May 1999

Published online by Cambridge University Press:

01 May 1999, pp. 649-659

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May 1999
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This study was designed to test the prediction that adolescents with autism would have specific limitations in imitating the “style” of another person's actions. In a series of original tasks that tested the delayed imitation of novel nonsymbolic actions, 16 participants with autism and 16 nonautistic participants group-matched for age and verbal ability were proficient in copying goal-directed actions, but in 3 out of 4 tasks, strikingly fewer participants with autism imitated with style with which the demonstrator executed the actions. An additional finding was that on 2 conditions that involved copying self-orientated actions, only 5 of the participants with autism but 15 of the 16 nonautistic participants spontaneously adopted the orientation-to-self on at least 1 occasion. The results are discussed with reference to theories concerning imitation deficits in autism, and with regard to the proposal that autism involves an impairment in intersubjective contact between affected individuals and others (Hobson, 1989, 1993; Rogers & Pennington, 1991).