Marginalia Historica is a peer-reviewed academic journal focused on the history of education, including dissemination of knowledge in general and institutional forms of education and schools in particular. It presents hitherto unpublished scholarly studies, book reviews, and event reports from the Czech lands within a Central European context. The journal was published between 1996 and 2004 by the Department of History and History Didactics of the Faculty of Education at Charles University first as an irregular anthology, with eight issues in total; following 2010, publication was resumed in a regular semi-annual period both in print and online.
MARGINALIA HISTORICA, Vol 14 No 2 (2023), 83–119
ArticleNové výzvy badatelské výuky v aplikaci HistoryLab: Starší dějiny pro mladší žáky a žákyně
[New Challenges of Inquiry-Based Learning in the Historylab Application: Pre-Modern History for Younger Students]
Pavla Sýkorová, Filip Jiroušek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/30298393.2025.14
published online: 23. 01. 2026
abstract
The study analyzes the creation of ten tutorials for the HistoryLab application based primarily on medieval sources, which are focused on students in grades 6, 7, and 8. The tutorials were designed, sampled, and revised over two years by students of the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. They used their experience in creating tutorials focused on the 20th century. It was necessary to rethink the structure of the lessons with regard to the nature of the historical evidence, the usability of the tools, and the age of the students. The analyses revealed several key findings, including the need for new interactive tools for working with visual and textual evidence. Based on these conclusions, the authors formulated principles and directions for creating further tutorials and proposed new interactive tools for the HistoryLab application.
keywords: inquiry-based learning; HistoryLab application; Pre-modern history

Nové výzvy badatelské výuky v aplikaci HistoryLab: Starší dějiny pro mladší žáky a žákyně is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
148 x 210 mm
periodicity: 2 x per year
ISSN: 1804-5367
E-ISSN: 3029-8393