St. Agnes Monastery as a monument of art and history

The work deals with St. Agnes Convent as a cultural and historical monument and possibilities of using a cultural and historical landmark, specifically St. Agnes Convent, in classes of Citizenship. It aims at exploring cultural and historical benefits of this convent from the view of its functions in the past and present, at making use of these findings to judge the importance of these functions for landmark value and preservation of the convent and finally at considering suitability of this monument for Citizenship at Stage 2 of basic schools, including proposals of specific activities. The author discusses the importance of teaching relation to cultural and historical heritage, to monuments and their conservation and also possibilities of its development owing to Citizenship and educational conception of the Czech Republic and related documents (especially "RVP" [Framework Educational Programmes for Basic Education] and "ŠVP" [School Educational Programmes]). Introducing the evolution of preservation of monuments in the Czech Republic, the author acquaints readers with approach to preservation of landmarks in the past and today and with problems of preservation of monuments which opens space for teachers and their students for reflection of their own relation to monuments and possibilities of..