Ars docendi 22/2025 Premessa – Vorwort – Foreword [Adami, Korn]
Dear ladies and gentlemen, issue 22/2025 of ‘Ars docendi’ (March 2025) offers you a diverse mix of articles from the field of didactics and methodology of ancient languages:
1) The series of reports on teacher training in ancient languages in Europe, which has already begun, continues with contributions on South Tyrol (Cescutti), Italy (Fiorini), Poland (Marciniak), Romania Part 2 (Spînu) and Germany (Korn). Once again, a number of interesting similarities and differences emerge.
2) Two reviews help to familiarise readers with new publications: Dichter im Fokus: Horaz (Adami); Texte erschließen und verstehen (Carstensen/ Feddern).
3) The articles ‘Leistungsmessung ohne Fehlerquotient’ (Doepner), which follows on from an article in AD 19/2024, and ‘Ein Modell für textkonstituierende Merkmale’ (Kauk) have a genuinely didactic focus. Also the presentation of a project on Thucydides' Melian dialogue (Dragoni).
4) The article ‘Sic me non servavit Apollo’ (Lobe) presents a largely unknown text for classroom use with a different perspective on Rome than the usual one, and the article ‘Theodora I. – Dämonin oder würdige Kaiserin?’ (Blönnigen) presents a period unfamiliar to the ancient languages. As a result of the gender theme, the second article is also suitable in terms of time and content for the complementary treatment of a number of Roman female figures.
Dear readers, now that the focus topic ‘Teacher training in the ancient languages in the countries of Europe’ has evidently met with broad interest among you, we intend to present tried and tested, country-specific Latin textbooks for the first years of learning in a further focus topic: Concept, structure, target group, specifics, vocabulary, references to the country of publication, contacts in schools and in the publishing house, etc. As editors, we would like to invite you to participate and, in the interests of medium-term time planning, we would ask you to let us know if you would be prepared to present such a textbook here in ‘Ars docendi’.
Please send your feedback to Dr. Adami or Dr. Korn by 30 June 2025.
And we are already announcing a major innovation: The Ars docendi website will have a new look from June 2025. We look forward to presenting the new site to you with the next issue.
We hope you enjoy reading ‘Ars docendi’ 22/2025 and thank you for your interest!
Martina Adami
Matthias Korn