Strengthening Ethical Commitments to the Common Good: Team-Based Learning in the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm

Abstract

We examine global participatory action research (PAR) that embodies five key elements of the Ignatian Pedagogy Paradigm (IPP): context, experience, reflection, action, and evaluation by analyzing narrative accounts from ten cohorts of Miller Center’s Lewis Family Fellowship, a nine-month team-based PAR program at Santa Clara University. Student-teams work with social enterprises in the Global South to advance the common good. Contributions include the importance of integrating spiritual frameworks into PAR to meet the needs of young people in their search for meaning and purpose, and how inculcating the IPP in college may become a lifelong practice post-graduation.