ICAJE

International Commission on the Apostolate of Jesuit Education - ICAJE

ICAJE serves as an advisory commission to the Secretariat for Education. ICAJE played an important role in outlining the contemporary official documents of Jesuit Education: The Characteristics of Jesuit Education (1986), Ignatian Pedagogy: A Practical Approach (1993); and, Jesuit Schools: A Living Tradition in the 21st Century (2019). These documents have been very central in implementing Jesuit Education in the world today and form together the contemporary framework of Jesuit Education worldwide.

The Commission was established originally in 1980 in order to continue the work of the Rome meeting on Secondary Education held that year in the framework of Fr General Pedro Arrupe SJ and his paradigmatic discourse: Our Schools Today and Tomorrow. In addition to meeting every year, the group serves the following purposes:

1. To assist the Secretariat in the coordination of the Jesuit Global Network of Schools.
2. To communicate to the Jesuit Conferences, Provincials, and especially to Province Delegates for Secondary and Pre-secondary Education, the results of the ICAJE meetings, and to suggest ways in which these recommendations can be implemented.
3. To be in communication with one another and with the Secretariat for Education of the General Curia, so that greater information and a sense of unity and networking can be accomplished.
4. To communicate to the Secretariat, the concerns, challenges and accomplishments of the Jesuit schools in their regions and the world.
5. To contribute to the current call for Jesuit Schools to become a global network at the service of our Universal Mission in the context of the Universal Apostolic Preferences (2019-2029), our current challenges and opportunities.
6. To contribute to the renewal, innovation and re-imagination of the Apostolate of Jesuit Education as ongoing exercise of discernment, as it is presented in the document A Living Tradition (2019) and the Action Statement from JESEDU-Rio2017.

Present members:
• Chair: Fr Jimmy Bartolo, SJ - Secretary of Fr General for Secondary and Pre-Secondary Education
• Fr Leonardus Winandoko, SJ - Secretary of Jesuit Education Commission, Jesuit Conference of Asia-Pacific (JCAP-JEC)
• Fr Chikere Ugwuanyi, SJ - Coordinator of Jesuit Association of Secondary and Basic Education in Africa and Madagascar (JASBEAM)
• Fr Robert Reiser, SJ - Executive Director of Jesuit Schools Network of North America (JSN)
• Ms Agnieszka Baran - Director of Jesuit European Committee for Primary and Secondary Education (JECSE)
• Fr John Ravi, SJ - Secretary of Jesuit Educational Association of South Asia (JEASA)
• Fr Rodolfo Abello, SJ (interim) - President of Latin American Federation of Jesuit Schools (FLACSI)

Other participants:
• Fr Daniel Villanueva, SJ - General Coordinator, Fe y Alegría
• Mr David Smith - Global Apostolic Online Community Director, Educate Magis