ABSTRACT
The visit took place towards the end of the PGCE course, that is after the assignments had been handed in and immediately following the completion of practical teaching experience. The visit’s programme included study visits of various aspects of social, political and economic change, including farming, heavy industry and tourism in and around the city of Cracow. But it was the visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau that was expected to have the greatest impact – and to create the biggest challenges to the student teachers in terms of their response to the experience as subject specialists.
