Jesuit Education and Ignatian Pedagogy
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JESUIT EDUCATION AND IGNATIAN PEDAGOGYA desk top p r imer
JESUIT EDUCATION
IGNATIAN PEDAGOGY
• Seeks to develop the whole student—mind, body andspirit.
• Values academic excellence, interreligious understandingand service to others, especially the poor and sociallymarginalized.
• Prepares students for lifelong learning.
• Explores the interface between faith and culture.
• Pays special attention to values, ethical issues and the development of moral character.
• Is broad-based, comprehensive and liberal.
• Prepares students for a rapidly changing and diversesociety.
• Develops responsible citizens who are sensitive to theneeds of our times.
• Maintains an optimistic viewof human nature and of itspossibilities.
• Fosters an integration ofknowledge within and acrossdisciplines.
• Encourages critical, analyticaland creative approaches tosolving problems.
• Incorporates a globaland internationaldimension for growthand learning.
• Inspires graduates tochange society and theworld for the better.
Compiled by Debra Mooney, Ph.D.
Conway Institute for Jesuit Education | Center for Mission and Identity | Xavier University www.jesuitresource.org
JESUIT EDUCATION
includes a network of 28 universities and close to 60 high schools in the United States with similar missions and distinctive identities.
• Embraces the unique qualities ineach student.
• Facilitates students’ understanding ofinformation in a personally relevant and personallyappropriated manner.
• Employs a systematic, sequential and purposeful teachingplan.
• Encourages students to decide what is truly good forthemselves and society through a process of discernment.
• Is challenging and rigorous.
• Is interdisciplinary.
• Makes use of novel teachingmethods and technologies asthey arise.
• Relies on professors to serve as model “women and men for others” both inand out of the classroom.
• Encourages attentiveness, reverence and devotion toreveal truth and wisdom.
• Utilizes clear and specific evaluation methods.
• Encourages student responsibility and independence.
• Emphasizes“eloquentia perfecta”—speaking and writingexcellence.
• Views teaching as a vocation and as a service to others.
• Values the five educational principles comprising theIgnatian pedagogical paradigm: context [understandingstudent life and culture], experience [providingintellectual and affective learning opportunities], reflection of meaning for self and others, action [the externalexpression of learned content] and evaluation of studentgrowth.
IGNATIAN PEDAGOGY
is a teaching model that seeks to develop students of competence and compassion.