Ars docendi 11/2022
Premessa – Vorwort [Adami]
Dear readers,
the new issue of Ars docendi focuses on a topic that has been addressed repeatedly in previous issues, but never exhaustively. This issue will be dedicated almost entirely to Latin language lessons concerning the language itself. In addition, we will examine elements of interdisciplinary teaching involving other languages taught at school.
Matthias Korn (Leipzig, Dresden) in his essay questions the amount of vocabulary necessary to ensure a good quality of Latin knowledge and presents us with tools suitable for assessing quality and quantity.
Cornelia Eberhardt and Anna Schröder-Sura explore the concepts developed over the last few years in the multilingual curriculum in Thuringia and the importance of Latin in this curriculum.
Martina Adami (Bolzano) adds another basic idea for integrating Latin into the so-called Mehrsprachencurriculum (multilingual curriculum).
Stefano Usmari (Bolzano, Merano) interviewed Professor Markus Janka (University of Munich) on the issue of “Latine loqui” (in schools and universities).
We would also like to introduce you to a very interesting project called ‘Eulalia’, which aims to include Latin in authenticated language certifications. The project coordinator, Lucia Pasetti (University of Bologna), gives a brief presentation. We know that Eulalia is not the only project of this kind at present; in the next issue of Ars docendi, we would also like to introduce you to the ‘Euroclassica’ project.
Reports on the annual conferences of the DAV (Deutscher Altphilologenverband, Association of Classical Philologists of Germany) and the ADA (Academia Didactica Athesina) provide an overview of various major and minor initiatives for our subjects during the spring of 2022.
Martina Adami (Bolzano) invites all readers to reflect on our profession as teachers with a short text on Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Following on from the publications already seen in previous issues, Maria Krichbaumer (Munich) concludes her series of articles on the theme of “Journeys in the ancient world and the early modern period” with an essay on the martyrs of Thebes.
After six months of practical training in a South Tyrolean school, Berlin student Karin Gilch compares the sometimes substantially different concepts of teaching Latin in Germany and Italy.
I wish you all enjoyable reading.
On behalf of the editorial committee
Martina Adami