Manuel de Sá: Um jesuíta quinhentista português ao serviço da educação, da interculturalidade, da cidadania e da interdisciplinaridade

Abstract

The present article underlines the life and labour of Manuel de Sá, a Portuguese Jesuit born in Vila do Conde, Portugal at the XVI century (1528/1530 to 1596). Either as a student or a teacher in anthropology he was a migrant; he was a migrant all the same when he proceeded as researcher, author and methodologist. He extended his action to Portugal, Spain and Italy but his influence went beyond and scattered in other countries through his written work and through his students who became teachers and missionaries in Europe, in Africa, in America and in Asia. He mastered various scientific subjects and he taught all them; he acknowledged various methodologies, evaluated them and modified them accordingly with his own time and audiences. Beyond the teacher, the pedagogue, the methodologist and the author, Manuel de Sá, too, was a fighter struggling for social equity and minorities’ integration. But, on top of all, Manuel de Sá was a pioneer not only in interdisciplinarity as in interculturality.