Would you like to publish your favorite lesson(s) in medieval studies?
The Once and Future Classroom (formerly Scientia Scholae) is dedicated to the scholarship and teaching of medieval studies, including K-12, college and post-college levels of instruction. It is peer-reviewed and published electronically [usually] at least once a year although lingering effects of COVID had thrown us off track. The Fall 2024 issue is currently being edited, and should be posted by the end of 2024.
It will soon be the beginning of another calendar year. Final projects are coming in, and you're so glad you tried something new. You are thinking about your teaching, realizing what did and did not work this time around. You are looking for publishing opportunities for 2025. There were so many wonderful submissions to the Fall 2024 issue that the editors would like to dedicate another entire issue to single- or multi-class class activities, assignments, projects, or handouts.
- Are you using generative AI in a way that others who might currently fear these tools could replicate?
- Is there a video or set of videos that you use to supplement a class meeting that really gets your students engaged?
- Is there a song, a graphic novel, an anime, a program, a hands-on activity that lights up your students?
- Have you written a handout that helps non-majors see clearly why we read literature or history, or how a cathedral or castle teaches us about a whole century's politics, or how a recipe proves contact between widely dispersed peoples?
- Do you make gender issues, disability, racial diversity, feudalism, crusades, heresies, hagiographies accessible in ways that other instructors could benefit from?
YOU are out there teaching in inventive ways. YOU can help your colleagues everywhere with your best practices. YOU can submit something to The Once and Future Classroom, and see it in e-print in a matter of months.
For your convenience, there is a document with sample lesson plans and rubrics here.
The editors would like nothing better than to be deluged with your submissions, and promise a speedy turn-around with an eye towards a late spring publication. Submissions received before March 15 will be reviewed for publication in Spring 2025. Later submissions are still most welcome, and may appear in subsequent volumes.