IKON - The Newman Idea - New Orleans, LA

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this IS...
- I ntegral K nowing O riginating in N ewman
- THE IKON PROGRAM
Faith as INTEGRAL to thinking clearly
- Interdisciplinary courses accredited by the University of Holy Cross that students can use as electives for edification or potentially to transfer
- These courses cultivate a Habit of Integral Knowing, where students' faith acquires wisdom, knowledge, and practice
- IKONline enables The Newman Idea to help students integrate their faith with their learning through hybrid and virtual classes
IKON's answer
- Seeking Connection Many Catholic students may experience a loss of faith because they cannot connect their beliefs with their studies
- Seeking Integration Approximately 1 million Catholic students would be open to integrating their faith with their studies
- Seeking Purpose Some students report that when they cannot intellectually engage their faith experience a loss of purpose
ikonic solutions
- A TRIUNE PEDAGOGY
  Sapientia, Ratio/Logos, Praktikos (SRLP)
  
  Each class for (currently being used at Tulane):
  
  We begin the class focusing on wisdom as faith;
  
  We transition to instruction/discussion of interdisciplinary knowledge;
  
  We close the class by asking students to reflect on how they integrate this knowledge into practice, e.g., their life, school work, relationships, etc.
  
  This method will allow discussions to touch upon and range between the students' world and the content of what they are learning.
  
  The goal of this method is for students to see think with their faithin relation to their majors and relationships. Students will bask in the wonder and mystery of knowing while also understanding themselves.
  
  IKON Instructors get to know students using:
  
  Blended/Hybrid, seminar-based
  
  Personal influence, flipped class-rooms
  
  Patient listening and mentoring
- Enlargement of Mind Solitude, Silence, Attention, Traversing, Contemplating
- Desire This is the heart of the IKON approach to Educating: Students' desire for knowledge integrates with their faith
- Apprenticeship in Knowing For students it is not simply what they know, but how they integrate knowledge and faith in their lives
ikon scholar
- IKON Scholar is led by Dr. Angel Adams Parham, Reverend Joseph H. Fichter S.J. Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Sociology at Loyola University, New Orleans. This program unites professors together from different disciplines to read and discuss great texts that open new vistas beyond the often narrow specializations that characterize higher education. The goal of IKON Scholar is collaboration so that professors master a habit of integral knowing which extends to their teaching and scholarship.
IKON Ambassadors
- Brooke Santagato
  
  IKON Ambassador/MA candidate in Bio-Engineering Tulane University
  
  W. Laughlin Grace
  
  IKON Ambassador/Candidate at Tulane Law School
IKON inspired
- PERSONAL INFLUENCE
  
  Our guiding principle has been Newman's idea that the essence of the Gift of Integrity and of education is Personal Influence. One's education is partial if it is only about information delivery and assessment. Here are a few inspiring quotes from Newman that have informed our practice:
  
  [Whenever students] aim at something precise, something refined, something really luminous ... they avail themselves, in some shape or other ... of present communication between [person and person], of teachers instead of learning, of the personal influence of a master, and the humble initiation of a disciple.
  
  [The] personal influence of the teacher is able in some sort to dispense with an academical system, but that the system cannot in any sort dispense with personal influence. With influence there is life, without it there is none; if influence is deprived of its due position, it will not by those means be got rid of, it will only break out irregularly, dangerously. An academical system without the personal influence of teachers upon pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an ice-bound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else." - Saint John Henry Newman
- ON INTEGRAL KNOWING
  
  University training [as Integral Knowing]... is the education which gives men [and women] a clear conscious view of their own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches them to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to discard what is irrelevant.
  
  It prepares them to fill any post with credit, and to master any subject with facility. It shows them how to accommodate themselves to others, to know their state of mind, to bring other before their own, how to influence, how to come to an understanding with them, how to bear with them.
  - Saint John Henry Newman