{"id":300215,"date":"2023-12-29T00:30:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T23:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelitaniscalzi.com\/?p=300215"},"modified":"2023-12-12T23:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T22:55:57","slug":"french-speaking-africa-and-madagascar-formation-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelitaniscalzi.com\/en\/2023\/12\/29\/french-speaking-africa-and-madagascar-formation-session\/","title":{"rendered":"French-speaking Africa and Madagascar: Formation Session"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the end of October a formation course for formators was held at the Teresian Centre (of the Congo Commissariat).\u00a0 The theme for the meeting was: Formation in the intercultural era.\u00a0 It was conducted by Brothers Valentin Ntumba from the Congo ( biblical and anthropological prospective) and A.M. Zachary Igirukwayo from Burundi ((theological and charismatic prospective).<\/p>\n

With both realistic and prophetic courage the OCD Superiors of French-speaking Africa and Madagascar chose formation in this intercultural era as the theme for the formation of their formators.\u00a0 As a sequel to this course we must now appropriate and begin to promote interculture in educational settings.\u00a0 This could result, for example, in<\/p>\n

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  1. transversal understanding and appreciation of the various cultures involved, leading to better understanding of and interaction with each other;<\/li>\n
  2. learning to recognize the different languages and to appreciate what is fundamentally human in every language;<\/li>\n
  3. re-establishing affectivity in the formation process so as to overcome intellectulalism and assimilation tendencies and to promote evaluation processes that include \u201cintercultural competence\u201d;<\/li>\n
  4. to be open to diversity and to include a missionary prospective in the formation programme.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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