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This chapter is an exploration of the transformative possibilities of the website Learning and Violence, created to conceptualize and draw attention to the impacts of violence on learning, and to generate and share understandings of how to learn and teach effectively in the presence or aftermath of violence. Writing this chapter has enabled me to re-see the site, step back, and reflect on the underlying logic of the choices I made as I developed it and examine the potential of using the Internet for this purpose. I hope also to provide an example of the possibilities for websites as a feminist popular education tool with greater reach than typical popular education workshops or feminist texts.
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Horsman, J. (2012). WWW.Net. In: Manicom, L., Walters, S. (eds) Feminist Popular Education in Transnational Debates. Comparative Feminist Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137014597_9
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