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The Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies (DPLS) welcomes you and invites you into a process, culture, and context that serves the heart, mind, and soul.

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All Are Welcome Here

We hope that this wiki-based student guide will help give you a flavor of our culture and a positive expectation of what your doctoral studies may hold in store. If you ever have any questions, concerns, ideas, or comments please let us know. The faculty and staff of the DPLS and the broader School of Professional Studies are here for you as a resource and a source of community and support.

Jesuit Education

We are part of a Jesuit tradition that holds the principles and values of Ignatian pedagogy (the art or profession of teaching) as basic assumptions in bringing to light the knowledge and awareness of leadership studies. The program is a joint venture between faculty and students as we learn from each other.

The Ratio Studiorum of 1599 lies at the heart of Jesuit Education. It describes five elements of Ignatian pedagogy. These are: context, experience, reflection, action, and evaluation.

  • Context - Cura personalis -- personal care and concern for the individual -- is a cornerstone of Jesuit education. Human experience is the starting point of a Jesuit education. Based on this premise, our faculty becomes as conversant as possible with the context or life experience of DPLS students. Since human experience never occurs in a vacuum, educators must know as much as possible about the actual context within which teaching and learning take place.
  • Experience - DPLS strives to create the conditions whereby both faculty and students gather and recollect the material of their own experience. These experiences include facts, feelings, values, insights, and intuitions and bring richness to the subject matter at hand. Students and faculty learn from each other, assimilate new information, and further experience so that their knowledge will grow in completeness and truth.
  • Reflection - DPLS builds on academic foundations by engaging students in reflection. Memory, understanding, imagination, and feelings are used to grasp the essential meaning and value of what is being studied, to discover its relationship to other facets of human knowledge and activity, and to appreciate its implications in the continuing search for truth.
  • Action - DPLS provides opportunities that will challenge the imagination and exercise the will of both faculty and students to choose the best possible course of action from what they have learned. What they do as a result, while it may not immediately transform the world into a global community of justice, peace, and love, should at least be an educational step towards that goal even if it merely leads to new experiences, further reflections and consequent actions within the subject area under consideration.
  • Evaluation - Ignatian pedagogy aims at evaluation which includes but goes beyond academic mastery to well-rounded growth as persons for others.

From these five elements, DPLS has developed the following thoughts and principles:

  • That we share an ethically responsive experience that leads us to action and willing service.
  • That we learn from our experience and evaluate it in light of both its original and changed context.
  • That we practice discursive thought and action and make it a central tenet of the DPLS.
  • That we may be part of a living world that is aware and sensitive to social justice, tolerance and respect, generative and life giving values, and purposeful and courageous action.



Navigating the DPLS Student Guide

  • This wiki-based guide is online at http://wiki.gonzaga.edu/dpls.
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  • Search the wiki by using the search box on the left hand side of this window. The search feature is, perhaps the most powerful feature of the entire wiki. It gives you the freedom to search the DPLS Student Guide for the specific information that you want, when you want it.



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Contacting the Program

Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies, Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone, Spokane, WA 99258-2505



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