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Paper Title : Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP): An Impetus for the Jesuits to Become Multipliers of Change in Sri Lanka

Author : Fr. Rashmi M. Fernando, S.J 

Abstract  

As a universal body with a universal mission, the Society of Jesus deploys the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP) characterized by the spirally reflexive process of context, experience, reflection, action, and evaluation as its foundational framework for creating men and women with and for others. Bent on facilitating the multipliers of change and the agents of faith-promoting justice, the 16th-Century Company has recently promulgated its four-dimensional Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) for today’s world. However, if the UAPs have to be adequately served in the context of Sri Lanka today, they should first be understood in the prevailing economic, political, and humanitarian crises and the uprising people’s struggles in the island nation. Through this paper, therefore, an attempt is made to explore how the IPP could work as a two-way impetus for the Jesuits in Sri Lanka: (1) By becoming the impelling spirit that gears the Jesuits toward upholding the UAPs in Sri Lanka; and (2) by becoming the enabling force for the Jesuits to become active contributors in the uprising national cry for societal change, democracy, and faith seeking justice in the island nation.   

Keywords: IPP, Jesuit education, UAPs, Sri Lanka, faith, justice, societal change, democracy 

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Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP): An Impetus for the Jesuits to Become Multipliers of Change in Sri Lanka