(ed.) Non-European Teachers in Mission Schools: Introduction

Jensz, Felicity

Forschungsartikel (Zeitschrift) | Peer reviewed

Zusammenfassung

© 2016 Research Institute for History, Leiden University.This dossier focusses on non-European teachers within mission schools in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially in the period of colonial control. These teachers were central to the missionary project and helped to disseminate both Christianity and Western knowledge across the globe. Local teachers, alongside other mission assistants and helpers, also helped translate, transmit, and transform both Western and local forms of knowledge and contributed to broader discourse about knowledge, yet the importance of their work has often been overshadowed by the work undertaken in examining missionary elites. This dossier, with its extended introduction and three case studies from Africa, the Danish West Indies, and Bolivia, sheds light on the roles of non-European mission teachers as well as their recruitment and training, their self-representations, and methodological as well as conceptual issues about how information on these often inconspicuous intermediaries of mission education can be retrieved from disparate sources.

Details zur Publikation

FachzeitschriftItinerario
Jahrgang / Bandnr. / Volume40
Ausgabe / Heftnr. / Issue3
Seitenbereich389-403
StatusVeröffentlicht
Veröffentlichungsjahr2016 (01.12.2016)
Sprache, in der die Publikation verfasst istEnglisch
DOI10.1017/S0165115316000620
StichwörterColonial history; schooling; non-European history; mission history

Autor*innen der Universität Münster

Jensz, Felicity Ann
Exzellenzcluster 2060 - Religion und Politik. Dynamiken von Tradition und Innovation