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Studená válka v reflexi poštovní známky: od historického pramene k mediální výchově

Title in English The Cold War in Reflection of Postage Stamp: From Historical Source to Media Education
Authors

ŠTĚPÁNEK Kamil

Year of publication 2014
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Sborník prací PdF MU, řada společenských věd č. 28/2014/2
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Field History
Keywords history teaching; didactics of history; postage stamps; cold war; propaganda; medial education
Description The text analyzes the frequency and relevance of the themes of postage stamps related to a given historical period with regard to didactic and methodological aspects of their application in educational process. Postage stamps are, like other visual media, also historical source reflecting especially modern, in this case the world history. Using activities associated with the analysis of the motives of postage stamps of the Cold war period, it is possible, within the history teaching, to give an idea and explain not only historical events, but also, for example, the mechanism of propaganda and anti-propaganda. The described procedure arises effective alternative educational media that strengthens mainly the interdisciplinary cooperation of school history - media education. The annotated visual medium is not yet sufficiently processed in Czech educational literature, or applied in teaching practice.

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