Magister: The Phenomenon of Mission and Camaraderie Rogers-Freire for Social Justice.
The Story of the 5-Year Long Magister Institute Told by Former Cuban Jesuits.
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This study is founded on the qualitative tradition of inquiry. A special effort of comparing and sharing the opinions of the founding members, a true process of triangulation and member checking, functioned as a guarantee of the rigor and trustworthiness of the study (Moustakas 1994). The researcher was nondirective and permissive in the dialogues and interviews. The set of characteristics described in the section “A New Rogers-Freire-Goleman Paradigm” attributed to the Magister Institute’s leadership style were substantiated by the research participants in their interviews and postinterviews conversations and dialogues with the researcher. It was, also, their unanimous perception that this was a “group or team of equals” or a “consensus management group.” These two expressions seemed to convey in their minds that MI group reached the highest level of person-centeredness and attained an ideal form of personal and group consensus management. The method employed has shown its usefulness to study action groups in short periods. Time and cost are two factors recommending this method. The highlighted imbedded sense of mission of the founding members made their unity and common vision a viable faith-based unconventional option.
About the Author
Magister: Former Jesuits, the Phenomenon of Mission and Camaraderie is a dramatic story of ten Cuban former Jesuits in Miami. The book has a provocative “Paradigm of Social Justice” attributed to their unique fusion of Rogers and Freire. Its author is a former Jesuit and priest, a retired counselor /assistant principal, a former principal, and still a college professor in Miami. He founded El Rincon Community Clinic in Chicago while teaching psychology of faith at Loyola University. Dr. Cruz in the Dominican Republic was a college president, high school principal, and counselor. As national director of mental health, Dr. Cruz coordinated and directed a Master’s Degree program in community psychology with Florida International University.