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Learning the Nuclear : Educational Tourism in (Post)Industrial Sites.

The book illuminates the educational potential of nuclear tourism that becomes a site of outdoor and place-based education, promotes STEM, energy literacy, critical thinking, and environmental skills.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mazeikienė, Natalija.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:New Approaches in Educational and Social Sciences / Neue Denkansaetze in Den Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series Information
  • Copyright Information
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Natalija Mažeikienė: Introduction. Nuclear Tourism as an Emerging Area of Learning about Nuclear Energy
  • References
  • Ilona Tandzegolskienė: Revisiting Educational Potential of the Industrial Heritage Tourism: Ruhr Area in Germany and Ignalina Power Plant Region in Lithuania
  • Introduction
  • Theory Part 1: Spatial and Social Changes of Industrial Heritage and (Post)-Industrial Landscape
  • Changes in the Conception of Heritage in the Industrialisation Period
  • The Use of Scar Metaphor in Defining the Relevance of Heritage
  • The Trends of Urban Change Dependent on Industrial Heritage Objects or Post-Industrial Landscape
  • Theory Part 2: The Possibility of Transformative-Experiential Learning Developed within Educational Tourism When Interacting with the Objects of Industrialisation Process
  • Methodology Part 3: Presentation of the Research Method of Case Study
  • Part 4. Presentation of the Research: The Case of the Ruhr Area Transformation in Germany
  • Presentation of Landschaftspark DuisburgNord in Duisburg
  • Presentation of Zollern Colliery in Dortmund
  • Presentation of the World Heritage Site Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen
  • Presentation of German Mining Museum in Bochum
  • The Industrial Heritage in the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant Region and Visaginas City
  • Generalisation
  • References
  • Linara Dovydaitytė: The Pedagogy of Dissonant Heritage: Soviet Industry in Museums and Textbooks
  • Introduction
  • A (Double) Dissonance in Industrial Heritage
  • Industrial Heritage: What and Whose Stories?
  • Industrial Heritage and Nostalgia
  • What's Industrial in Industrial Museums?
  • The Narration of Soviet Industry in History Textbooks
  • Conclusions
  • References.
  • Ineta Dabašinskienė: Place and Language Transformations in a Post-Soviet Landscape: A Case Study of the Atomic City Visaginas
  • Introduction
  • Visaginas: From the Planned Soviet Past to the No-Where Future?
  • Theoretical Approach and Methodological Remarks
  • Language Policies, Attitudes and a Sense of Belonging
  • Language, Authenticity and Commodification
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Eglė Gerulaitienė, Natalija Mažeikienė: Energy Tourism at Nuclear Power Plants: Between Educational Mission and Retention of "Safety Myth"
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Conceptualizing Nuclear Tourism as a Specific Form of Energy and Industrial Tourism
  • A Shift from Special Interest Groups' Tourism to Attracting Families and Children to Nuclear Power Plants
  • Energy Tourism as a Part of Corporate Branding. Creating a "Safety Myth" at the Visitor Centres of Nuclear Power Plants
  • Nuclear Power Plants as Objects of Cultural and Historical Heritage
  • Torness Nuclear Power Station as an Educational Site and Energy Tourism Attraction
  • Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant: Exploring Education and Tourist Facilities at the Enterprise Under Decommissioning
  • Visit to Ignalina NPP Closed Territory - "Security Theatre" and the Masquerade
  • Exploring Narratives of INPP at Information Centre
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Natalija Mažeikienė, Eglė Gerulaitienė: Chernobyl Museum as an Educational Site: Transforming "Dark Tourists" Into Responsible Citizens and Knowledgeable Learners
  • Introduction
  • The Cultural Construction of Disaster in Tourism Destinations
  • Methodology of the Research
  • Chernobyl Museum as a Disaster and Dark Tourism Destination
  • Construction of the Nuclear Nation and Nuclear Belonging at the Chernobyl Museum
  • Epic Heroic Narrative in Commemorating Heroes - Clean-up Workers (Liquidators).
  • Comparing Heroic Narratives of the Chernobyl Museum with Non-heroic Representations in Other Texts: An Intertextual Reading
  • Structural Approach to the Chernobyl Disaster: Learning How the "Soviet System" Worked
  • Learning about Radiation in the Contaminated Nuclear Landscape
  • Existential Conceptualisation of Time at the Chernobyl Museum: Multiple Temporalities in the Interplay Between Chronos and Kairos
  • Kairos in the Symbolic, Philosophical and Religious Narrative on the Disaster
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Magdalena Banaszkiewicz: Fun in the Power Plant. Edutainment in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Tourism
  • Introduction
  • Tourism in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Numbers and in Tourism Studies
  • Education and Entertainment in Tourism
  • Educational Nuclear Tourism in the CEZ
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Lina Kaminskienė: What We Find Outdoors: Discovering Nuclear Tourism Through Educational Pathways
  • Introduction
  • Pedagogical Approaches in Implementing Outdoor Education
  • Pedagogies of place: natural history
  • Landscape analysis
  • School journeys (excursions)
  • Field studies
  • Outdoor adventure activities
  • Action research
  • Cultural journalism
  • Outdoor education and problem-based learning
  • Impact of Outdoor Education: Cognitive, Affective, Social/Interpersonal and Physical/Behavioural
  • Outdoor Education and Educational Tourism
  • Outdoor Education in Different Educational Levels and Contexts
  • Outdoor education in kindergarten
  • Outdoor education in primary, lower and upper secondary schools
  • Implementation challenges
  • Outdoor Education in the Context of Developing Educational Tourism in Visaginas and Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Judita Kasperiūnienė: Innovative Technological Solutions in Virtual Nuclear Education
  • Introduction.
  • Methodology
  • Findings
  • Dominating Topics of Virtual Nuclear Education Empirical Research
  • Educational Gaming to Explore and Analyze Real-Life Issues
  • Virtually Enhanced Touring to Engage and Interact with New Knowledge
  • Geolocation Technologies of Virtual Tours Development
  • Discussion and Conclusions
  • Limitations
  • References
  • Odeta Norkutė, Natalija Mažeikienė: Energy Literacy in Geography Curriculum: Redefining the Role of Nuclear Power in Changing Energy Landscapes
  • Introduction
  • A New Role of Geography in Teaching and Learning Energy Literacy and Promoting Education for Sustainability
  • Energy Geography in the Curriculum of the Future and Survival
  • The Changing Energy Landscape as the Main Concept of Energy Geography
  • A New Pedagogy and Active Methods in Addressing Pedagogical Challenges and Overcoming Difficulties in Teaching Energy Geographies
  • Teaching About Nuclear Energy: Enhancing Energy Literacy and Scientific Literacy
  • Energy Literacy and Energy Issues in the National Curriculum of Geography in Lithuania
  • The Concept of Nuclear Energy in Lithuanian Textbooks on Geography
  • The Concept of Nuclear Energy in Forms 9-10
  • Identification of the Significance of Nuclear Industry
  • Revealing the Role of Nuclear Energy in the World
  • Revealing the Threats of Nuclear Energy
  • Review of the Situation of Nuclear Energy in Lithuania
  • The Concept of Nuclear Energy in Forms 11-12
  • Social and Urban Aspects of Nuclear Energy
  • Militaristic Aspects of the Use of Nuclear Energy
  • Scientific and Technological Progress and Nuclear Energy
  • Generalisation on the Explanation of Nuclear Energy in the Textbooks for Forms 10-12
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • About the Authors
  • Series Index.

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