Our curriculum follows an iterative rhythm of listening & learning, collective and faithful theological discernment, and shared action.
This process adheres to the highly efficacious pattern of action research for social justice honed in social movements, broad-based community organizing, and emancipatory action research. Our curricular sources include:
The intentional listening and researching tools of broad-based community organizing
The pedagogies of inclusion and collaboration that inform popular education
The rigorous methods of analysis and representation developed in qualitative/action research disciplines
Interwoven with each of these elements is our reliance on critical theology. A theological perspective that is both self-reflexive and attentive to the structures of violence and oppression, it also unabashedly affirms the role that faith and spirituality can play in the construction of peaceful and just communities.
To this extent, we integrate theological logics and practices in every stage of what becomes a theological action research process.
Listening and learning become expressions of collective prayer and the spiritual reading of (con)texts. Discernment that translates learning into action is not only the product of qualitative analysis, but also Ignatian tools of spiritual reflection that shape analysis.
Actions of community building are informed by a theology of witness that names faithful action as an inalienable element of spiritual reflection moving in concert with God’s own action to restore and heal humanity and creation.
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