Learning the Nuclear: Educational Tourism in (Post)Industrial Sites
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- ISBN 9783631841631
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2021
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This book illuminates the educational potential of nuclear tourism and learning about nuclear power in informal and non-formal learning settings. The authors present a case of elaboration of the educational virtual nuclear route in the Ignalina Power Plant Region, Lithuania. Nuclear tourism takes its shape at the junction of several types of tourism – energy, industrial, cultural, and heritage and it becomes a site of outdoor and place-based education, promotes STEM, energy literacy, critical thinking, and environmental skills, and creates a valuable source for virtual learning. The book reveals peculiarities of learning and experience at nuclear power plants and disaster tourism destinations such as the Chernobyl Museum and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Natalija Mažeikiene˙ is a Full Professor at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Her areas of interest include critical theory, educational innovations, innovative teaching and learning strategies, curriculum development. She is a leading researcher in the project ‘The Didactical Technology for the Development of Nuclear Educational Tourism in the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) Region (EDUATOM)’.
