Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm
Orientation
After the Characteristics, teachers' question was concrete: how to insert Ignatian values into everyday interaction?
The International Commission on the Apostolate of Jesuit Education (ICAJE) responds with the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm: a strategy that unifies the principles of the Characteristics without adding subjects to already crowded programmes.
It draws on the Spiritual Exercises: not only information to transmit, but a path in which the pupil interiorly tastes what is studied, discerns its meaning and chooses to act.
The aim
Academic excellence remains essential; it is not the final goal. Competence, conscience and compassion: leaders in service.
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Intellect, affectivity, morals and faith: beyond the accumulation of knowledge and professional preparation alone.
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Transforming how we see ourselves, others and structures, with preferential attention to the poor and the marginalised.
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The interiorised «more»: apostolic creativity, discernment and passion for the Kingdom, before proposing them to pupils.
The model
At the centre: experience, reflection, action. Context and evaluation make the cycle complete and repeatable.
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The real world of the pupil and the atmosphere of the school. Cura personalis begins here.
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Tasting interiorly: facts, imagination and affect. Without the heart, learning does not move to action.
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The pivot. Meaning and human implications, until conscience is formed.
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Love shows itself in deeds. From knowing to commitment, respecting freedom.
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Beyond grades: growth as persons for others, signs of generosity and of magis.
The teacher
Ideals are reached in daily interaction. The teacher creates the conditions: a balance in equilibrium, not indoctrination.
Kolvenbach recalls that Ignatius places the teacher's personal example well above instruction alone. CeFAEGI insists on long pathways: practice, return and colleagues who learn together are needed.
The text
The ICAJE document on the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, with the same gesture as the Texts library.
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Reference text · ICAJE
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