Egle Gerulaitiene

Egle Gerulaitiene
Vytautas Magnus University · Research and Innovation Department

Doctor of Social Sciences (Education)

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This article considers how, by applying participatory approaches and involving stakeholders in tourism development as a process of interpretation of the nuclear past, present, and post-nuclear future, variant forms of tourism (energy, nuclear, Soviet industrial heritage, recreational) promoting different narratives might stimulate change and negoti...
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The authors of this book explore a significant trend in the reconceptualization of education, focusing on the growing importance of outdoor education and learning beyond the traditional classroom setting. By organizing educational activities in public spaces such as museums, libraries, galleries, heritage sites, science centers, community places, s...
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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 touris...
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This chapter has two principal objectives: first, to conceptualize the recent development in energy tourism by giving special attention to nuclear tourism as a distinct form of energy tourism and illuminating the educational potential of nuclear tourism sites and tours. Second, the chapter provides an explorative field research study of nuclear ene...
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The chapter focuses on the concepts of dark tourism and disaster tourism, which could be viewed as a cultural representation of disaster. These tourist destinations provide visitors as potential learners with an understanding of the social, political and cultural causes of technogenic disasters. The chapter analyses what meanings of the disaster ar...
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Knowledge management in health is merely focused on the formal healing protocols, and patient data management despite of the broad knowledge base available outside of the formal medical domains, and an important need to integrate it into the health management systems. However, there is very little known on how to integrate this diversity of knowled...
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Research presented in the paper focuses on commodification of cultural identities and community empowerment strategies of cultural tourism in Visaginas.. One of challenges in developing tourism is orientation toward profit and commodification of culture, which becomes a problem in regard to practicing authentic identities. The article presents effo...
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Research presented in the paper focuses on learning biographies and professional identity development of 14 female and male teachers at university colleges in Norway. Biographical narratives reveal subjective accounts and perception of gender roles and it exposes interaction of formal, non-formal, informal experiential learning in different cultura...
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Internet is a mean of mass information and fulfills the traditional functions of a public space without doubts. Participation in the virtual space is defined as a problematic use of the Internet process which damages the disadvantaged young person's personality, which is already characterized by a lack of social skills, communication, feelings of e...
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Intercultural simulation games are defined as instructional activities that engage and challenge participants with certain experiences. The use of intercultural simulation games in the study process while developing intercultural competence becomes very essential part of education. The primary prerequisite for development of intercultural competenc...
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The rapid growth of online distance education has implied the need to rethink delivery structures and pedagogical practices that were once appropriate (Beldarrain, 2006). Learning and teaching in a distance learning environment is a learning method that promotes interactivity, independence, and cooperation, creates favourable conditions for the stu...
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Since integration and globalization processes are accelerating in the world, the demand to internationalize education and studies increases as well as parameters of the activities of higher education institutions change. International competitive ability of European higher education area, international mobility and high level of university graduate...
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This article reports on the results of research carried out with university students using simulation games as educational resources. The aim of the study was to analyse the role of simulation games as mediational tools in the creation of playful, creativity-based educational interaction and the development of intercultural competence. Our approach...
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An increasing number of higher educational institutes are offering remedial, bridging, preparatory or transitional courses in a blended and online format to remediate and enhance students' knowledge and skills. This article addresses how teachers and institutes design and implement these courses. The descriptions of transitional courses were collec...
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There is growing concern in Europe that some students are not well-equipped to start a Bachelor's or Master's programme, especially when the programme has a strong mathematical focus. In particular, attention is drawn to problems with mathematics in the transition from secondary to higher education. Higher education expects a certain level of algeb...

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