Learning the Nuclear : : educational tourism in (post)industrial sites Natalija Mažeikienė / / Natalija Mazeikiene.

• VerfasserIn: Mazeikiene, Natalija,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (382 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

Introduction. Nuclear Tourism as an Emerging Area of Learning about Nuclear Energy -- Revisiting Educational Potential of the Industrial Heritage Tourism: Ruhr Area in Germany and Ignalina Power Plant Region in Lithuania -- The Pedagogy of Dissonant Heritage: Soviet Industry in Museums and Textbooks -- Place and Language Transformations in a Post- Soviet Landscape: A Case Study of the Atomic City Visaginas -- Energy Tourism at Nuclear Power Plants: Between Educational Mission and Retention of "Safety Myth" -- Chernobyl Museum as an Educational Site: Transforming "Dark Tourists" Into Responsible Citizens and Knowledgeable Learners -- Fun in the Power Plant. Edutainment in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Tourism -- What We Find Outdoors: Discovering Nuclear Tourism Through Educational Pathways -- Innovative Technological Solutions in Virtual Nuclear Education -- Energy Literacy in Geography Curriculum: Redefining the Role of Nuclear Power in Changing Energy Landscapes.