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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.