Molenda Piotr PhD

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piotr.molenda@aws.edu.pl

Piotr Molenda – Doctor of Humanities in the field of literary studies (2009) – thesis on the Polish mnemonics of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Graduate of the Faculty of History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and postgraduate studies – manager in education (Gniezno Millennium College). For many years, he has worked in the field of education: he worked, inter alia, as a consultant teacher, history teacher, teacher of civic knowledge; in the years 2009-2020, he taught postgraduate students in the field of didactics and pedagogy. He is currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Penitentiary Studies of the Academy of Justice.
His research interests revolve around issues related to regional and patriotic education, as well as history and the application of mnemonic methods (he has prepared, among others, the monograph: Méthode mnémonique polonaise. Antoni Jaźwiński (1789-1870) and his art of memory (2013). Author of scientific and popular science articles, entries in biographical dictionaries, editor of three collections of lesson plans on the cultural heritage of Wielkopolska and volume 22 of ‘Zeszyty Kaliskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk’ (2022).

He has developed and conducted numerous training courses on topics such as: regionalism, learning and teaching methods, working with gifted students. Between 2013 and 2015, he acted as a specialist-coordinator of a teacher training network on the subject of creative thinking in the Kalisz district, and prepared and coordinated four regional education projects in southern Wielkopolska (2015-2019).

Scientific achievements

The contribution of Antoni Jaźwinski and Józef Bem to the popularisation of the Polish mnemonic method.

Molenda Piotr

International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences, 2023; 21 (5), pp. 223-237.
Mnemonic method of teaching the history of General Joseph Bem in the light of the sources of the Kornik Library.

http://pamietnik.bk.pan.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/PBK_2023.pdf

Molenda Piotr

Pamietnik Biblioteki Kornickiej, Z. 40, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kórnik Library 2024, pp. 87-106

Organisational achievements

Originator, co-organiser and presenter of the preliminaries of the Kalisz Memory Championship ‘Super Memory’, Kalisz 2000-2006.
Originator, organiser and host of conferences for teachers, local government officials and regionalists as part of the public task ‘Closer to home’:
1. ‘Closer to home. Regional education in south-eastern Greater Poland’ (2015).
2. ‘Closer to home – heritage of south-eastern Wielkopolska’ (2017).
3. ‘Closer to home – Polish roads to independence. Regional education in south-eastern Wielkopolska’ (Kalisz, 19-11-2018).
‘My locality in the Wielkopolska Uprising’. Co-organiser of a conference prepared jointly with the Museum of Landed Gentry in Dobrzyca (05-12-2018).
Originator, co-organiser and presenter of the conference combined with the educational project ‘Wielkopolska roads to Independence’. Activities included the 1st Meeting of schools named after Wielkopolska Insurgents from southern Wielkopolska, an exhibition, a conference and promotion of good educational practices. (March 2019)
Guide guiding groups visiting the historic Penitentiary in Kalisz, ‘Night of the Museums 2024’.