This article is authored by Ms. Jennie Hickey, the Executive Officer of Jesuit Education Australia.
The Key Leaders of Learning and the Ignatian Coordinators from Jesuit and Companion Schools Australia were engaged in a four-day workshop entitled “Learning by Refraction: A Practitioner’s Guide to 21st Century Ignatian Pedagogy.” The workshop was held at St. Peter Canisius House, Pymble, Australia from the 23rd to the 27th of February 2020.
On February 3rd to 6th, 2020, over 30 educators from nine European countries attended a four-day Conference on “Learning by Refraction,” a 21st-century approach to Ignatian Pedagogy proposed in a book of the same title by Fr. Johnny Go SJ and Ms. Rita Atienza of the Ateneo SALT Institute in Manila. (Listen to an interview with Fr Go about the topic.)
On December 9, 2019, the administrators of Jesuit schools in the Philippines congregated in the Loft, Arete on the Ateneo de Manila campus for a very special JBEC meeting. Their special speaker for the day was no other than Fr. Jose Alberto Mesa SJ, the Society of Jesus’ Secretary for Secondary and Pre-secondary Education. Fr. Mesa spent the day with them sharing his thoughts on the new Jesuit education document, “Jesuit Schools: A Living Tradition” and on the notion of leadership in Jesuit schools.
II COLLOQUIUM JESEDU JOGJA2020 is just a few months away: June 29 to July 4 next year! Only the second global gathering of its kind, approximately 500 educators and leaders of Jesuit schools from around the world are expected to fly to Jogjakarta for a unique experience: To wrestle with 21st-century issues in teaching and forming our students especially in light of the four Universal Apostolic Preferences.
The following reflection was written by Fr. Clement Tsui SJ, the education delegate of the Chinese Province.
The Ignatian Teachers Program (ITP) was held on 11-15 November 2019 at St. Ignatius’ College, Riverview in Sydney, Australia. There were eighteen participants from the following: the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, and Hong Kong. Most of them were experienced teachers, with a few school directors, administrators, and school chaplains.
As of 2019, there are 46 Jesuit-owned and affiliate schools in Asia Pacific: Australia, Cambodia, East Timor, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Taiwan, and the Philippines.
On the morning of the 19th of September 2019, the Sacred Heart School-Ateneo de Cebu Junior and Senior High Schools opened their doors to welcome fifty Ignatian educators from Asia Pacific into their classrooms. These Ignatian educators were participants in the 2nd JCAP Workshop on the PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION OF JESUIT EDUCATION, coming from seven regions: East Timor, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Taiwan, Pakistan, and the Philippines.
In a simple but moving ceremony held on the Feast of Mary the Queen, at a Mass in Xavier School, Philippines, Fr. Ari Dy, SJ, presided and missioned Ms. Ma. Kristina Velez to teach English at the Xavier Jesuit School in Sisophon, Cambodia, where she will serve for one year.
The Ignatian Teachers Program (ITP) is the last workshop offered by the JCAP Education Secretariat in cooperation with St. Ignatius College (Riverview, Australia). The conference is customized for principals, deputies, administrators, and senior teachers who seek ongoing formation for themselves and their school communities.
This year’s ITP will be held in Sydney, Australia from November 10 to 16, 2019. Participants are expected to arrive on the 10th and may leave on the 16th.
(more…)From May 14 to 18, 2019, the Jesuit Education Secretaries flew into Taipei for their annual meeting.
This year the meeting was focused on: (a) the global event being hosted by Indonesia next year, the II COLLOQUIUM JESEDU JOGJA 2020, where about 500 leaders of Jesuit schools from around the world are expected to congregate in Jogjakarta, Indonesia, and (b) the concrete ways in which the recently announced Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Society of Jesus can be promoted by our schools.
