Ars docendi 7/ 2021
Premessa – Vorwort – Foreword
In this issue of Ars docendi, we address unusual topics and perspectives that may seem provocative to those who prefer traditional Latin lessons:
Matthias Korn (Leipzig) and Cornelia Eberhardt (Erfurt) reflect on the reasonableness of pre-established competencies as a goal for Latin teaching in Germany.
Martina Adami (Bolzano) presents the European project “Democracy and Its Endangerment”, developed in collaboration with other schools in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Greece.
Maria Krichbaumer (Munich) presents a teaching unit, a very fascinating module on the Ferrara poet Olympia Morata (1526–1555), who settled in Germany with her husband, the German doctor Andreas Grundler, where she taught Latin and Greek privately.
Student Sophia Schmidt (Bolzano/Oxford) talks about her experiences at Oxford and how she has enjoyed her degree course in Classics so far.
Finally, Maria Pezzo (Trento) talks about the future of classical high schools and the importance of soft skills applied and practised in this type of school.
And Martina Adami presents a very interesting bilingual book that has just been published.
The diversity of these approaches and moments of reflection from very different regions can be a starting point for personal, but also professional, reflection.
I hope you enjoy reading this and feel inspired to experiment and create new and exciting units, modules and projects for our school world, combining the ancient and the modern.
And don't forget: let us know about your projects, as they will certainly be of interest to other teachers and students.
Martina Adami