The Preamble

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The Preamble

• JSEA Foundations

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Ignatian Educators

• Adopt bold educational approaches that
• Seek to develop and assert specifically Ignatian
  qualities in educational programs
• Go beyond the criteria of academic excellence to
  assist w/ the metanoia of students

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Spiritual Exercises

• Contemplatio ad amorem (4th Week)
• Indifference/Detachment
• The Principle and Foundation
• Three Kinds of People (2nd Week)
• Contemplative in Action
• Two Standards (2nd week)
• Magis (3rd week)

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Contemplatio ad amorem

• Students should be encouraged to
• Develop a sense of wonder appreciation of
  creation human existence
• Our educational techniques methodologies should
  provide affective experiences (empathetic
  identification) of knowing as well as conceptual
  experiences of knowing (logical analysis)

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In other words

• Affective Dimension
• enjoy the realization of Gods love for us in
  creation and Gods personal revelation to us
• Encourage experiences of community and
  companionship to the pragmatic tasks of learning

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Indifference

• Engage them in stripping away false
  values/assumptions, warped values, and class or
  cultural mythologies which distort our perception
  of reality.
• Prejudice
• Social injustice
• Corporate political ideologies counter Gospel
• We must illuminate the contradictions
  ambiguities of these values

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Contemplative in Action

• Become dreamers and men/women for and with others
• We must strive to affect basic perceptual
  structures by which students view themselves and
  their world.
• Offer them an Ignatian vision of reality

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Magis

• Find their fulfillment in loving and serving
  others
• A thirst for the more, for the greater good, for
  the most courageous response to the challenge of
  our time
• Must foster the frontier spirit, to transcend
  boundaries and limits.

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Magis

• Encourage them to not be satisfied with mere
  mastery, but rather to explore the deeper human
  dimensions and implications of their learning.
• Refers not only to academics, but also to action
• Christian service
• Immersion programs