SOUTHERN EUROPE AND THE FAR EAST EARLY CONTACTS: JESUIT FIELDWORK REMARKS FROM PIONEER EXPERIENCE IN  INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION Cover Image

SOUTHERN EUROPE AND THE FAR EAST EARLY CONTACTS: JESUIT FIELDWORK REMARKS FROM PIONEER EXPERIENCE IN INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION
SOUTHERN EUROPE AND THE FAR EAST EARLY CONTACTS: JESUIT FIELDWORK REMARKS FROM PIONEER EXPERIENCE IN INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

Author(s): Maria de São José Corte-Real
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Academiei Forțelor Aeriene „Henri Coandă”
Keywords: Ethnomusicology; intercultural education; Society of Jesus, Goa; music; intercultural Communication; teachers training; social cohesion

Summary/Abstract: Intercultural communication, based on tested strategies and skills, was a major concern on the early years of the Jesuit’s educational missions centered on Goa. Music and some other knowledge domains played a fundamental role in those hard intellectual works. This communication, based on original reports from the sixteenth century by the hand of Francisco Xavier and Fernão Mendes Pinto, points out and discusses aspects then presented as preoccupations and/or findings; it stresses some fundamental questions identified today as recent trends in the crossroads of arts, intercultural concerns and education; and it points out the beginning of the missionary activity of the Society of Jesus as a pioneering landmark of the policy for Intercultural Education.

  • Issue Year: 1/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 231-235
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English