African Reactions to Missionary Education. Edward H. Berman

1978 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-515
Author(s):  
Robert Koehl
Keyword(s):  
Missionary Education

Early Christian English teachers in Korea: Imperialists or advocates? Exploring the lesser known other truth

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-289
Author(s):  
Mary Shepard Wong ◽  
Seong-Yun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Missionary Education ◽  
National Spirit ◽  
Japanese Colonial

Education has long been an interest of foreign missionaries. Many criticisms have been raised over the promotion of imperialism in foreign missionary education. However, what is often overlooked is the positive mutual impact foreign educators have had on both their host and home societies. This article explores the influence of early educational missionaries in Korea and considers the “other truth” of the positive impact they had as advocates for Koreans during the Japanese colonial period. After a historical overview, the authors highlight missionary contributions to social justice and the restoration of Korean national spirit. They conclude with implications for today.

A Tamil Pietist in Ceylon: The Educational Experiments of Christian David

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-68
Author(s):  
Mark E. Balmforth
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
School Building ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Missionary Education ◽  
German Education ◽  
Christian Family

This microhistory of the early nineteenth-century school-building efforts of a Tamil preacher in British Ceylon tracks an intersection between missionary education, British colonialism, and South Asian modernity. Christian David (1771–1852) was born into a Tamil Christian family with deep connections to the Royal Danish-Halle Mission at Tranquebar and educated by German missionaries Christian Friedrich Schwartz and Christoph Samuel John, like his more famous contemporaries King Serfoji ii of Tanjore and the celebrated Christian poet Vētanāyakam Cāstiriyār. In the year 1801, after declining employment in Serfoji’s court, David accepted an offer to become ‘Preacher in the Malabar Language in the District of Jafnapatam’. Drawing upon his extensive, albeit little-known writings, this essay argues that David expanded upon the mixed Tamil-German education of his childhood and the pedagogical experimentation of his missionary mentors to propose and construct a pioneering and consequential state-funded boarding school explicitly seeking to cultivate governable subjects.

Habemus Ducem: Archbishop Hinsley’s Appointment to Westminster, 1935

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-141
Author(s):  
James M. Hagerty
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Missionary Education ◽  
British Colonies

Arthur Hinsley was born in 1865 at Carlton, near Selby, in Yorkshire. Educated and trained for the priesthood at St. Cuthbert’s College, Ushaw, and the Venerable English College, Rome, he was ordained for the Diocese of Leeds in 1893 and immediately returned to Ushaw as a professor. In 1898 he became a curate at St. Anne’s Church, Keighley and from 1900 to 1904 was the founding headmaster of St. Bede’s Grammar School, Bradford. Following a disagreement with Bishop William Gordon of Leeds he was incardinated into the Diocese of Southwark in late 1904 and served as rector at Sutton Park near Guildford and at Sydenham. In 1917 Hinsley was appointed Rector of the Venerabile and in 1928 was sent to Africa as Apostolic Visitor charged with assessing and reporting on the state of Catholic missionary education in the British colonies. While in Africa he remained Rector of the English College but resigned from this post in 1930 when he was appointed as the first Apostolic Delegate to the British colonies in Africa. He remained in Africa until an attack of paratyphoid forced him to retire and return to Rome in 1934. On his retirement he was given a sinecure as a Canon of St. Peter’s Basilica. Hinsley had been created a Domestic Prelate to Pope Benedict XV in 1917 when he was appointed to the Venerabile. In 1926 he was consecrated titular Bishop of Sebastopolis and when he returned to Africa in 1930 he became titular Archbishop of Sardis.

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