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.