EDFI 630
Studies: Catholic Education
Ignatian Education
6th class / February 20, 2002
First, your curricular items that address ethics and morals.
New topics:
1. How do Jesuit schools define justice? Equality of outcome? Equality of access? How does compassion intersect with justice?
2. What does "conformity" with the Gospel (WMJSJ, p. 4) mean?
3. What is the "counterculture gift of Christ"? (WMJSJ, 2)?
4. Suffering is both a condition to be reduced and an experience from which to learn. How do Jesuit schools address this experience?
5. Is a Jesuit school an alternative to other schools, a model from which other schools can learn, both, or something else?
6. Did you receive an "extensive orientation" to Jesuit education at the time you started work? What form(s) did it take?
7. What does the word "love" mean in the context of the Jesuit school of 40 years ago? What does it mean today?
8. How are the non-academic objectives of "grad @grad assess? can they be?
9. What constitutes sufficient familiarity with the Gospel? With non-Catholic traditions? For your students? For you??