Descripción
The research question of the dissertation is: How to form partners in education to share in the common mission of Jesuit educational institutions? He crafts the answer to this question by studying the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. He claims an analogy between the central dynamic of the thirtyday
retreat, whose guidelines are in the book of the Spiritual Exercises, and four operative principles that ought to constitute the structure of formation programs for Jesuit schools’ faculty and staff in the educational tradition, identity and mission of the Society of Jesus. The four operative principles are discernment, desire, diakonia and decision. Formation that aims at training partners in education to share in the
common mission of Jesuit schools happens best when these four operative principles inform the curriculum design and when they interplay during the actual process of forming the educators who work in Jesuit schools.