Gender Awareness in ICT with Focus on Education
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Introduction This paper describes the ongoing project Gender Awareness in ICT with Focus on Education. The first section of the paper presents the background to this study while the second section describes the pilot study carried out in April 2008 and outlines the preliminary findings. The main study will be carried out in Autumn 2008. This study is part of a larger project in the south-east of Sweden called “Young Communication” funded by the Knowledge Foundation and centred around three universities in the south east of Sweden: Blekinge Institute of Technology, Kalmar University and Växjö University.
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