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

• Superior document: New Approaches in Educational and Social Sciences / Neue Denkansaetze in Den Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften Series ; v.36
• Author: Mazeikienė, Natalija.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2021.; {copy}2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: New Approaches in Educational and Social Sciences / Neue Denkansaetze in Den Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 pages)

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.

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.