The development of historical imagination on the example of an exercise addressed to first-year students of history at Nicolaus Copernicus University
The development of historical imagination on the example of an exercise addressed to first-year students of history at Nicolaus Copernicus University

Summary/Abstract: December 12, 2016 a group of eleven first-year studentsof history organized at the Institute of History of NicolausCopernicus University in Toruń (Poland) participated in thefield work carried out in the church Roman Catholic parishof St. Jacob the Apostle in Toruń. During a visit in the templethe students performed an exercised to draw their attention:generally to the role of the imagination in the practiceof the historian’s research and training his own imaginationin whole live. First, the authoress described a process of theexercise. Then she briefly pointed to the literature on therole of the imagination. Later she discussed the work thathave arisen in the result of the exercise. Next she characterizedthe thoughts and impressions of students. She also outlinedthe importance of this exercise in a broader context.At the end she summed up the whole article.

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