Students’ Attitudes to Sites of (Non)Memory at NCU Goals, Course and Results of Action Research

Abstract

This paper presents the afterthoughts and conclusions related to the second edition of the Project - Students’ attitudes to sites of (non)memory at NCU – which combines historical content and modern educational methods of knowledge transfer and is inspired by the research conducted and analysed by Hana Červinková. The author makes reference to the educational potential of the sites of memory (at the Nicolaus Copernicus University) which enables delving into multi-layered historical resources, immortalized records, identity-making processes, on the one hand, and learning characterized by critical thinking and careful consideration, on the other hand. This study provides also the reasons for the methodological framework used in the Project: action research; it is conducive to bringing the understanding of the processes which shape the reality, in its broad meaning, surrounding an individual. The Project participants, progress and results are described in order to demonstrate how to construct collective memory and how to cultivate the history which serves human ‘freedom’, rather than ‘subjugation’ as it is to save the past from falling into oblivion for the sake of the present and the future.