The website "Learning from History" is a publication platform
for educational projects (realized in schools and in out-of-school, youth education) dedicated to the history
of Poland and its neighbors in the 20th century.
Projects

In The Project Method William H. Kilpatrick proposed a teaching method which emphasize the role of self-education based on the common realization of a task initiated by the teacher. The idea of the "project method" can also be useful in historical education. Here we publish some educational projects in which pupils try to interpret the experience of 20th century totalitarian regimes. They use in their activities many tools and solutions that challenge the standard model of school education.

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The Last Journey (Die letzte Reise)
21 November 2008

Together with professional actors from the Municipal Theater of Chemnitz, enthusiastic students from the Dr.-Wilhelm-André-Gymnasium rehearsed the play "Dr. Korczak - The Last Journey" by the Japanese author, Fumikatsu Inoue. Korczak, a physician and teacher, was director of an orphanage and died along with 200 of his orphans at Treblinka in 1942. The performance has been a great success in Germany, Italy and Switzerland. Project derived from partner website "Lernen aus der Geschichte".

 
Memento. The Children's Concentration Camp at Litzmannstadt
08 October 2008

The point of departure for the search of to students for traces in local history was the "Memorial of the Broken Hearts", commemorating the so-called detention camp for Polish juveniles, where the SS had imprisoned Polish youths under inhumane conditions. The topic of the competition was "The Most Important Event in the History of My Home Town. Witnesses and Testimonies". The project presented here was carried out by two secondary school students. They collected reports of contemporary witnesses and carried out research work in the library. The write-up of their work and research findings was handed in as a contribution towards the competition.

 
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Most read projects
"Dig Where You are Standing" Malchow: A sub-camp of Ravensbrück
04 February 2009
Anti-Racism Project For Unemployed Youth
17 December 2008
Investigating a School's Name (Ein Name verpflichtet)
08 January 2009
"Euthanasia" at Bernburg : Mass Murder of the Aged and Infirm
09 February 2010