EDFI 630
Studies: Catholic Education
Ignatian Education
Class 9 / March 20, 2002
Preliminary list of identified characteristics of Jesuit secondary education
1. Selective use of the SJ legacy (who selects?)
2. Informal process of transmission of ethos
3. �Syncretistic� relation of social sciences and Jesuit educational theory
4. Very loose coupling with SJ higher ed goals and techniques (!)
5. Relationship between individual Jesuits and high school students unclear as �post Jesuit era� approaches
6. Qualitative differences between motivations of SJ teaching faculties and counterparts in the public schools.
7. Reputation of SJ schools in local community larger factor than curricular specifics in shaping direction of schools
8. Bureaucratic models shifting, or have already shifted
9. Generational differences in understanding of SJ culture and traditions
10. Local recruitment of faculty an outstanding characteristic: this is diametrically opposed to national trends in public schools.
11. �Unconscious intellectualism� of SJ teachers
12. Tensions between autonomy and top down models of academic freedom
13. No clear line (yet articulated) between deism and Christo-centric theology in construction of ethics