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Distance learning and social issues: opportunities and challenges in preventing violence
https://www.igi-global.com/about/rights-permissions/content-reuse/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.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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