Abstract
The aim of this publication is to seek and verify the possibilities how to apply into the teaching of modern and contemporary history at the secondary schools the concept of memory and the memories of eyewitnesses. The text results from collaboration among historians, didactics and teachers of history.
In the first part authors explain the theoretical concepts from the field of memory studies and implement them into the school practice. Then they discuss the didactic potential of memories for the development of higher levels of (historical) and affective thinking skills of pupils.
They also deal with the advantages and limits of the application of oral history method in history teaching. The second past of the book maps the horizons of individual pupils' discoveries, which are based on the so-called object analysis of evidences of the past, including photographs, postcards, family souvenirs or local sites of memory, such as monuments or historic buildings.
The final part of the book offers proved examples of school projects and experience of nine teachers who put into practice the ideas how to work with personal memories as well as memory of things and sites.