Involving different type of violence between individuals such as intimate and family violence, community violence.
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Distance Learning and Social Issues: Opportunities and Challenges in Preventing Violence
Sónia Maria Martins Caridade (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Fernando Pessoa University, Portugal & Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (CIEG), Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP), University of Lisbon (UL), Portugal) and Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis (Energy, Environment and Health Research Unit, University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4769-4.ch019
Abstract
Distance learning (DL) assumes a relevant place in the scope of social sciences' approaches adopted in terms of violence prevention, through the creation and development of digital platforms addressing different types of violence. As a consequence of the wide use of information and communication technologies (ICT) by young people, the risks represented for experiencing violence, and the advantages in terms of the rapid dissemination of information, there has been an increasing use of digital tools to prevent different victimization phenomena. Although there are constraints associated with DL, it has lower costs of learning training per person, allowing a wide dissemination of information. This chapter intends to analyse and discuss how DL may address violence prevention in terms of social sciences issues specific interventions. In the expectation that others may emerge, existing practices in this area covering the most diverse types of violence affecting young people are presented and described.