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The book explores the potential of learning outside the traditional classroom when students gain real-world experiences in a variety of contexts and public spaces such as built, natural and virtual landscapes, museums, heritage sites, science centres and community venues. The authors of the book promote and put the flexible and 'plastic' concept of a place of learning into action by including physical geographical location, digital, virtual and textual spaces into the analysis. The book illuminates the importance of innovative educational strategies in connecting formal, non-formal and informal education - experiential learning in museums, heritage places and communities, inquiry-based pedagogy, digital storytelling, environmental online games, narrative geographies, and the use of geospatial technologies.
List of contents
Outdoor education - Non-formal education - Place-based education - Museum education - Educational tourism - Public pedagogy - Critical pedagogy - Gamified virtual environments - Serious games - Cultural participation - Digital media technologies - Nuclear tourism - Anthropocene
About the author
Natalija Mažeikien¿ is a full professor at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Her areas of interest include critical theory, educational innovations, innovative teaching and learning strategies, and 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)¿.
