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The Educational Leadership Experiences of Jesuit Directors Of LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations 2020 Leading from the Margins: The Educational Leadership Experiences of Jesuit Directors of Mission High Schools in the Philippines and the Implications for the Leadership Formation of Filipino Jesuits Guillrey Anthony M. Andal S.J. Loyola Marymount University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd Part of the Educational Administration and Supervision Commons, and the Educational Leadership Commons Recommended Citation Andal, Guillrey Anthony M. S.J., "Leading from the Margins: The Educational Leadership Experiences of Jesuit Directors of Mission High Schools in the Philippines and the Implications for the Leadership Formation of Filipino Jesuits" (2020). LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations. 935. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/935 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY Leading from the Margins: The Educational Leadership Experiences of Jesuit Directors of Mission High Schools in the Philippines and the Implications for the Leadership Formation of Filipino Jesuits by Guillrey Anthony M. Andal, S.J. A dissertation presented to the Faculty of the School of Education, Loyola Marymount University, in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education 2020 i Leading from the Margins: The Educational Leadership Experiences of Jesuit Directors of Mission High Schools in the Philippines and the Implications for the Leadership Formation of Filipino Jesuits Copyright © 2020 by Guillrey Anthony M. Andal, S.J. ii Loyola Marymount University School of Education Los Angeles, CA 90045 This dissertation written by Guillrey Anthony M. Andal, S.J., under the direction of the dissertation committee members, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education. February 27, 2020 Date Dissertation Committee Jill Bickett, Ed.D., Committee Chair Allan F. Deck, S.J., S.T.D., Ph.D. Edmundo Litton, Ed.D. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have completed this work through the invaluable support that I have received from various generous and patient individuals and communities. I wish to thank first, Prof. Jill Bickett, Ed.D., my accomplished and ever-supportive dissertation chair and the other distinguished members of the committee, Rev. Fr. Allan Deck, S.J., S.T.D., Ph.D., and Prof. Edmundo Litton, Ed.D. Their academic and professional guidance has led me to a better appreciation of the value of rigorous research and critical thinking in the field of Catholic educational leadership. I thank, too, all my participants as well as the community members of the Jesuit mission high schools and the Jesuit leadership of the Philippine province of the Society of Jesus. They have been the vital sources of wisdom and encouragement for this study. I also thank our students from our mission high schools, especially the members of the Indigenous Peoples communities for inspiring all of us Jesuits assigned in the missions. Because of them, we have learned how to be Ignatian educational leaders for and with others. I am especially grateful, too, to my Jesuit brothers in the Philippines and here in Los Angeles, my superiors, and my confreres. Their support and reassurance propelled me to see this project through, despite considerable challenges along the way. Finally, I wish to thank from the bottom of my heart, my dear family and friends (Cohort 14 and our professors included!). I thank them for cheering me on through the toil of research and writing and for incessantly pointing to the light at the end of the tunnel. I am deeply grateful to them for remembering me in their thoughts and prayers. To my mother, father, and brother, I joyfully dedicate this dissertation. And may God always be glorified and praised with my humble ministry in the margins. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........................................................................................................... iii LIST OF TABLES ..................................................................................................................... viii LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................................................................... ix ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................................................x PROLOGUE ...................................................................................................................................1 Beginning with My Story...........................................................................................................1 Ordained and Obedient ..................................................................................................1 The Mission ...................................................................................................................1 Marginalized ..................................................................................................................2 In Need of Transformation.............................................................................................3 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................4 Background of the Problem .......................................................................................................4 Formation Gap ...............................................................................................................4 Leadership Gap ..............................................................................................................5 Urgent Context ...............................................................................................................6 Statement of the Problem ...........................................................................................................6 Lack of Purposeful Preparation .....................................................................................7 Jesuit Educational Leaders .............................................................................................7 Research Questions ....................................................................................................................9 Purpose .......................................................................................................................................9 Significance..............................................................................................................................10 Conceptual Framework ............................................................................................................11 Evaluating and Developing Leadership Preparation Programs ...................................11 Incorporating Ignatian Principles .................................................................................12 A Modified Framework ...............................................................................................14 Design and Method ..................................................................................................................16 Phenomenological Study .............................................................................................16 Participants ...................................................................................................................16 Site Location ................................................................................................................17 Limitations of the Study...........................................................................................................17 Assumptions .................................................................................................................18 Limitations ...................................................................................................................19 Delimitation .................................................................................................................19 Definition of Terms..................................................................................................................21 Organization of the Dissertation ..............................................................................................25 CHAPTER 2: REVIEW OF LITERATURE ............................................................................26 Introduction ..............................................................................................................................26 The Jesuit Education Apostolate ..............................................................................................26 St. Ignatius’s Apostolic Goal: To Help Souls ..............................................................26 iv Jesuits: The First Teaching Order ................................................................................27 St. Ignatius’s Spirituality and the Development of Jesuit Education Apostolate ........28 Jesuit Education in the Philippines During the Time of Colonizers ........................................30 The Spanish Colonial Influence on Jesuit Education ..................................................31
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