From March 6 to 8, 2024, 38 educators from 13 schools gathered at the Archbishop Brunett Retreat Center at the Palisades for the Jesuits West Province Colloquium. This...
Read MoreThe Ignatian Initiative for Teacher Excellence (IGNITE) offers resources for Ignatian formation for educators around the world. Its frameworks for the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP) and Ignatian Leadership are distinguished by their concrete and practical approaches that Ignatian educators will not only find accessible but also easy to apply in their work.
In light of the Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Society of Jesus, the mission of Jesuit education today may be interpreted as the three-fold task of Educating for Purpose, Educating for Depth, and Educating for Reconciliation.
The first Universal Apostolic Preference is “Showing the Way to God through the Spiritual Exercises and Discernment.” In today’s world, this first UAP can be interpreted as guiding people to choose their purpose and discover their meaning in life through a journey of seeking God and discerning His Will.
In today’s mission of Jesuit education, “to journey with the youth and to accompany them in the creation of a hope-filled future” means helping our students–more than ever–to learn how to think deeply and critically, how to make sound judgments in the face of so many– often contradictory–claims.
“To walk with the excluded–the poor and the outcasts–in a mission of justice and reconciliation” necessarily entails “caring for our common home” because the ecological crisis is bound to affect the marginalized most adversely.
From March 6 to 8, 2024, 38 educators from 13 schools gathered at the Archbishop Brunett Retreat Center at the Palisades for the Jesuits West Province Colloquium. This...
Read MoreOne long weekend in Thailand, some 35 representatives from selected Catholic schools in the country gathered at the Baan Phu Waan Pastoral Training Centre in Sam Phran, Thailand...
Read MoreIn the first week of October 2023, thirty-two administrators and master teachers of the Jesuit Basic Education Commission holed up at the beautiful Mirador Jesuit Retreat House and...
Read MoreBy Elizabeth Phipps, Director of Teaching and Learning, St. Aloysius College (Sydney) On Monday 17 July, St Aloysius’ College teaching and support & operational staff gathered for our...
Read Moreby Cris Gilbert Garcia, Ateneo Confucius Institute Fr. Johnny Go, SJ introduced the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP) to teachers of the Confucius Institute at the Ateneo de Manila...
Read MoreBy Russell Fiorella, Jennie Kuenz & Greg Allen(Jesuit High School – Portland, OR, USA) Physics teaches us that refraction happens when light approaches a different medium from...
Read MoreThis 21st-century approach to Ignatian Pedagogy is based on the book Learning by Refraction: A Practitioner’s Guide to 21st-Century Ignatian Pedagogy by Johnny C. Go and Rita J. Atienza.
LEARNING BY REFRACTION, published by the Ateneo de Manila University Press,offers a fresh take on the IPP, curating what’s most helpful from the latest education research and consolidating what has been tried and tested by practitioners of the IPP since its launch in 1993. The ideas in this approach emerged from many conversations wtih experienced Ignatian educators around the world, as well as consultation with education specialists.
Listen to an interview conducted by the Irish Jesuits on this contemporary approach to the IPP.
LEADING WITH DEPTH is a framework for Ignatian Leadership that interprets Ignatian spirituality using selected contemporary leadership theories and principles. It proposes four distinct dimensions for Ignatian Leadership: Reflective Leadership, Listening Leadership, Discerning Leadership, and Missioning Leadership. This approach is distinctly concrete and down-to-earth, and is intended to guide not only leadership development, but also its assessment.
A book of the same title (co-authored by Johnny C. Go SJ and Assunta C. Cuyegkeng) has just been published by the Ateneo de Manila University Press.
Watch this interview about the book.
Hear from the authors themselves about their projects on Ignatian Pedagogy and Leadership.
Here are online resources for LEARNING BY REFRACTION and LEADING WITH DEPTH.
The LbR Masterclass in 21st-Century Ignatian Pedagogy provides a deep dive into the most essential concepts of LEARNING BY REFRACTION through a series of 11 lectures by Johnny Go SJ.
If you’re interested in starting a course with a cohort in your school, email us at: ignite@ateneo.edu
Consult our library of sample Insights, Reflection Questions, and Action Goals applicable to different disciplines and levels of education.