Literary learning
A central area of our research activities is the question of how literary learning and the promotion of literary competence can be organised in the classical language classroom. A suitable concept has been developed in numerous publications:
"A central task of Latin teaching is to enable its pupils to study Latin literature from antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times. It is not important to ensure the success of this contact solely through the development of a functionally orientated textual competence focused on the analysis of Latin texts or even to assign the study of Latin literature merely a serving function for the acquisition of linguistic and methodological competences.
A dominant focus on the area of textual competence is no substitute for literary education, the ability to deal with literature joyfully, creatively and consciously. Rather, learning with, through and about literature must be given systematic attention as a specific form of skills acquisition in which aesthetic, affective and reflective components are also given special significance. Latin lessons are always also literature lessons, in which exploration, translation and interpretation enter into a close and productive relationship. In order for literary competence to be successfully acquired in the classroom, certain conditions must be fulfilled: Teachers should have a basic knowledge of relevant literary analysis tools in order to analyse literary texts from multiple perspectives, beyond the traditional text-immanent approach, for teaching purposes. At the same time, subject-specific didactic concepts should be applied that allow a balance to be struck between the precise perception of the text and the subjective experience of the learners. In this way, it should also be possible to allow more open approaches to interpretation and results that avoid an overly schematic right/wrong judgement."
(Stefan Kipf/Ulrich Schmitzer (2021), 133.)
Read more:
Stefan Kipf (2015). ... und wo bleibt die Literatur? Gedanken zum Kompetenzerwerb im altsprachlichen Unterricht, Forum Classicum 2, 70-83.
https://www.altphilologenverband.de/forumclassicum/pdf/FC2015-2.pdf
Stefan Kipf (2019). Geschichte des altsprachlichen Literaturunterrichts. In: Chr. Lütge (Hrsg.): Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Literaturdidaktik. De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2019, 15-46.
Stefan Kipf/Ulrich Schmitzer (2021). In: Mit Ulrich Schmitzer: Literaturkompetenz, in: Ulf Jesper, Stefan Kipf, Thomas Riecke-Baulecke (Hrsg.): Basiswissen Lehrerbildung: Latein unterrichten, Klett /Kallmeyer, 2021, 133.