Our pedagogical model has the following objectives:
“Return home not only wiser, but better”
This phrase by St. Ignatius summarizes the heart of our pedagogy: forming integral individuals who are capable of thinking deeply, acting with discernment, and learning throughout life.
At Colegio San José, teaching to be, teaching to think, and teaching to learn becomes a path that unites academic growth with human and spiritual development. In this way, every educational experience invites our students not only to acquire knowledge, but also to become conscious, competent, compassionate, and committed women and men who work for the common good.
Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm: Learning by Refraction
Just as light bends when passing through water (changing direction rather than reflecting unchanged), students should transform knowledge, deconstructing, internalizing, and reconstructing it to make it their own, rather than passively mirroring the teacher.
Learning by refraction is an innovative take on the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP), a dynamic five-part framework designed to facilitate transformative learning by engaging the whole person. Its components are not stages that students go through one by one as they are not so much separate steps but distinct elements of learning. Refractive learning, therefore, occurs when there is a continuous interaction between these elements: experience is the best teacher if and only if it is followed by reflection and action.
