Practicing Ignatian Pedagogy: A Digital Collection of Resources - Part 4 - Resources and Application

Sep 29, 2026

Practicing Ignatian Pedagogy: A Digital Collection of Resources explains how a year-long Ignatian Pedagogy Faculty Learning Community at the University of San Francisco led to an openly accessible online database. Gleeson Library/Geschke Center librarians describe defining Ignatian pedagogy, collecting vetted resources from ACJU schools, adding USF-specific materials, and structuring records into a searchable system with subject categories. The collection functions as both a digital archive and an ongoing conversation supporting Jesuit higher education and classroom practice.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryReligion & Spirituality

FormatPDF

Pages19

Reading Time48 min

AccessFree to download

Introduction

Defining Ignatian pedagogy

Building the collaborative digital collection

Structuring resources in the database

The IPP Resource Compilation

Origin of the primary source document

Organizing and making resources accessible

The University of San Francisco USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center | Gleeson Library Librarians Research | Gleeson Library | Geschke Center | | --- | --- | Fall 11-2015 Practicing Ignatian Pedagogy: A Digital Collection of Resources Zheng (Jessica) Lu University of San Francisco, [zjlu@usfca.edu](zjlu@usfca.edu) Vicki Rosen University of San Francisco, [rosen@usfca.edu](rosen@usfca.edu) Follow this and additional works at: [http://repository.usfca.edu/librarian](http://repository.usfca.edu/librarian) Part of the Education Commons, and the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Lu, Z., & Rosen, V. (2015). Practicing Ignatian Pedagogy: A Digital Collection of Resources. Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal, Vol 4, No.2, 135-152 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Gleeson Library | Geschke Center at USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gleeson Library Librarians Research by an authorized administrator of USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center. For more information, [please contact](please contact repository@usfca.edu)[ repository@usfca.edu](please contact repository@usfca.edu). Practicing Ignatian Pedagogy: A Digital Collection of Resources Zheng (Jessica) Lu Digital Collections Librarian, Gleeson Library | Geschke Center University of San Francisco ([zjlu@usfca.edu](zjlu@usfca.edu)) Vicki Rosen Distance Learning Services Librarian, Gleeson Library | Geschke Center University of San Francisco ([rosen@usfca.edu](rosen@usfca.edu)) Pancho Cardenas’s Los Lobos de Loyola, outside the USF Gleeson Library|Geschke Center. Photo by Shawn Calhoun, 2014. Introduction In the Spring 2015 issue of Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal, Kimberly Connor described building an Ignatian Pedagogy Faculty Learning Community at the University of San Francisco. One outcome of the FLC was to gather and make easily available a collection of resources on Jesuit education and the IPP (Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm) . In this issue, two USF Gleeson Library/Geschke Center librarians, Zheng (Jessica) Lu, Digital Collections Librarian, and Vicki Rosen, Distance Learning Services Librarian, describe creating Practicing Ignatian Pedagogy: A Digital Collection ofResources, an openly accessible database available through the USF Library website, using the FLC resources and digital technology. The collection’s landing page begins by defining Ignatian pedagogy: Ignatian pedagogy is a model that promotes the goal of Jesuit education, speaks to the teaching-learning process, addresses the faculty-student relationship, and has practical meaning and application for the classroom. Similar to the process of guiding others in the Spiritual Exercises, faculty who apply Ignatian pedagogy accompany students in their intellectual, spiritual, and emotional development. They do this by creating the conditions, laying the foundations, and providing the opportunities for the continual interplay of the student's experience, reflection, and action. The Ignatian pedagogical paradigm is a practical teaching framework consistent with and effective in communicating the Ignatian values and worldview. Faculty, regardless of discipline, can utilize this approach so that their teaching is academically sound and at the same time formative of “persons for others.” The landing page continues by describing the content and intent of this collaborative project: As part of the conversation of a year-long USF Faculty Learning Community on Ignatian Pedagogy in 2013-14, members of the FLC gathered all the best information already assembled by ACJU (Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities) schools, added items of special interest for and by USF faculty, and created a compilation of resources, the basis for this digital collection. The follo

FAQs

What is Ignatian pedagogy as described in the collection’s landing page?

It is a model promoting the goal of Jesuit education and guiding teaching-learning by addressing the faculty-student relationship, with practical meaning and classroom application.

How was the digital collection of resources created?

Members gathered information already assembled by ACJU schools, added items of special interest for and by USF faculty, and then created the compilation using a library digital platform.

How are the resources organized and made searchable?

Resource lists were separated into individual records, each assigned a subject category, then reviewed, updated, and supplemented with additional items.

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