The article is a memory of Anna Radziwiłł and highlights her unique features, such as the ability to listen, the need for personal involvement in social affairs, often outside the formal structures, and also a special view of history and current social events, a creator of which she became at some point.
This text contains reminiscences of Anna Radziwiłł as a teacher of history. She was an extraordinary teacher, highly respected, well liked and appreciated by her students. While her lessons addressed the past, they were an engaging introduction to understanding the present. Always well prepared, she was able to arouse interest in a subject even in the most indifferent students. She was always respectful towards her pupils and genuinely interested in their opinions.
The topic of the study straddles at least four disciplines: history, history teaching methods, educational psychology, and ethics. Some aspects of this topic can be found in the text on history teaching by Z. Beneš and B. Gracová. According to them, history teaching must take into account two contradictory tendencies: an accent on generalisation which historical sciences bring to those interested in historical sciences and their discoveries, and an accent on personal, family or generation shared experiencing and interpreting of historical events. The author confronts the discoveries with practical experiences of history teachers as revealed by current research, and introduced initiatives to this end, as implemented in practical experience in Chile, Northern Ireland, and Spain.
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