Culturological elements of edutainment employed in basic cultural formation of non-humanities students
Authors:
- Saint-Petersburg Mining University
Abstract
The article considers the trending concept of edutainment (a portmanteau of ‘education’ and ‘entertainment’), and studies the socio-cultural factors that have helped to spread such educational methods. The author demonstrates the concept’s relevance to teaching cultural studies at non-humanities universities; exemplifies it through her own experience of applying edutainment to coaching students’ research of the cultural heritage; describes the methodology of the educational experiment; and assesses its theoretical and practical results.
10.18454/pmi.2016.3.498