Students’ books for teaching History – 50 years of changes Cover Image

Podręczniki do historii – 50 lat zmian
Students’ books for teaching History – 50 years of changes

Author(s): Anna Glimos-Nadgórska
Contributor(s): Wiesława Duży (Translator)
Subject(s): Education, School education, History of Education, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Keywords: Teaching History; Students book;

Summary/Abstract: The article depicts a problem of quality of students’ books prepared for grammar, secondary and high schools in last fifty years. Authors of those books, as a result of political transformation, gained liberty for presenting information suitable to pupils’ age and their cognition abilities. A “teaching program basis” and individual teaching programs are now frames for every project of that kind. Nowadays, students’ books are written according to clues and solutions proposed by History didactics, i.e. combining in a inseparable way narration from the book with information drawn from other teaching methods. It should be emphasized that new students’ books for teaching History – in spite of few weak points – show current state of research in History and use present propositions of History didactics. There can be found elements of new, narrative philosophy in History, especially a pluralism of truths. Students have a base for gathering information and preserving historical abilities from diverse sources of knowledge.

  • Issue Year: 21/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 3-30
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Polish