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The Ignatian Paradigm
St. Ignatius of Loyola was the founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit order). As a Jesuit school, Bellarmine utilizes the Ignatian Paradigm as the framework and methodology that is the foundation to our understanding of the learning process. Characteristics are represented in the outer ring of the Commons in the center of Bellarmine's campus.
Context
...for the learning experience
- Knowing the student, student's world and life experience
- Taking account of the socio-economic, political and cultural environment within which the student grows up
- Appreciating the effect of school/classroom environment
- Building on the acquired learning of the student
Experience
...engaging the whole person in learning
- Creating conditions whereby students gather and collect their own experience and distill what they bring to the subject matter at hand
- Guiding students in assimilating new information and further experience so they will grow in completeness and truth
Reflection
...drawing meaning and value from experience by
- Assimilating facts and testing validity of theories/hypotheses
- Developing predictions about what will work
- Locating source of feelings and reactions
- Exploring implications for oneself and others
- Making explicit what is implicit and assumed
- Seeking truth behind events and ideas
Action
...choices and commitments toward the greater good (Magis)
- Interiorized choices, e.g. clarification of one's priorities, making the truth one's own and remaining open to where it might lead
- Externally manifested choices, e.g. interiorized values impelling one to act, to do something consistent with this new conviction
Evaluation
...comprehensive assessment of student growth and learning related to
- Attitudes, priorities and actions
- Progress on the journey
- Encouragement, support and challenge
- Diagnostic of obstacles, difficulties
- Goal setting and commitment to the future