Didactics of History According to Adam Kłodziński (1918)

Abstract

The article presents Adam Kłodziński’s early period of activity in the field of history didactics, which took place in autonomous Galicia. His thoughts were based on his experience of practice, and he included them in his 1918 work, On the Issues of History Didactics (Pol. Z zagadnień dydaktyki historii). Particularly noteworthy are his proposals regarding defining the basic goal of teaching history, which is to understand the present, the introduction of a minimum curriculum and the need for a significant reduction in the historical content taught concerning the period before the French Revolution, the need to preserve the teacher’s autonomy in the choice of textbook and other teaching resources, and taking into account the need to individualize the teaching process. Thanks to these considerations, he became the first lecturer of the didactics of history at the Pedagogical College of the Jagiellonian University.