| Summary: | Foreword This book has been made as a part of the Aware-project — “Increasing Awareness in educational Organisations of Sexualised and Gendered Violence -publication and web project 2001–2002”. Articles are based on current and ongoing research made worldwide. The Aware-project is funded by the European Commission’s Daphne-programme. The aim of the whole Daphne-programme is to develop measures to prevent violence targeted at children, youth and women. The aims of the Aware-project were 1) to increase public and academic awareness of sexualised and gendered violence in educational organisations, 2) to develop communication between existing research networks and 3) to produce a publication, which would be suitable educational material for teacher education pedagogical studies. Our way to prevent violence is to increase administrators’, educators’ and public awareness about various forms of sexualised and gendered violence. We are proud to publish this book in the Femina Borealis -publication series, which is the publication forum which concentrates especially on Northern Women and Gender Studies. The Aware-project was organised by the Women’s Studies of the University of Oulu, which has been actively developing Women and Gender Studies in the northern part of Europe. The book presents some results of the projects which have roots also in Femina Borealis. Most of the writers of the book are from the northern part of Europe and the book gives some special insights into gendered and sexualised violence in educational environments from a northern perspective as well as comparative insights from other parts of the world. The book is partly based on work done in various networks and reserach projects. The most important of them are the research project entitled “Gendered power relations and violence in schools and teacher education in Northern Finland”, and the research network entitled “Gendered violence in schools and teacher education in the Barents region”. The network is organised between research groups from ...
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