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...
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CATHOLIC EDUCATION COMMISSION OF THAILAND TRAINS IN “LEARNING BY REFRACTION” WITH GBSEALD
One 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...
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JBEC LbR TRAINER’S TRAINING LAB IN MIRADOR, BAGUIO
In 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...
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ST. ALOYSIUS COLLEGE STAFF REFLECT ON REFLECTION
By 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...
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ATENEO EDUCATION DEAN INTRODUCES “LEARNING BY REFRACTION” TO ATENEO CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE
by 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...
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PUTTING “LEARNING BY REFRACTION” INTO PRACTICE: VENTURES IN IPP ENRICHMENT
By 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...
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TWO LbR TRAINERS’ TRAINING LABS IN AUSTRALIA
Jesuit Education Australia (JEA) held two Learning by Refraction training workshops in March of 2023–one hosted by St. Ignatius’ College in Adelaide from 15 March to 18, and...
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“LEARNING BY REFRACTION” TRAINING FOR XAVIER LEARNING COMMUNITY (CHIANG RAI, THAILAND)
At the end of January, the Gokongwei Brothers School of Education and Learning Design (GBSEALD) welcomed a delegation of 11 administrators and staff from the Xavier Learning Community...
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“LEARNING BY REFRACTION” GOES GLOBAL
An updated approach to Ignatian Pedagogy was introduced on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Ignatian Pedagogy: A Practical Approach. GBSEALD Founding Dean Fr. Johnny Go SJ and ATC Director Rita...
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IGNATIAN PEDAGOGY TRAINING DAY AT COLÁISTE IOGNÁID
Note: Under the leadership of its Principal, David O’Sulllivan, Coláiste Iognáid in Galway held a staff training day focused on Ignatian Pedagogy on 19 November 2020. This reflection...
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LEARNING BY REFRACTION GOES TO THAILAND
Learning by Refraction: A Practitioner’s Guide to 21st-Century Ignatian Pedagogy has been translated into Thai and is being used by Catholic schools all over Thailand through the efforts...
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LEARNING BY REFRACTION: RE-INTRODUCING IGNATIAN PEDAGOGY
Note: On 12 October 2020, Saint Ignatius’ College (Riverview Sydney, Australia) held an online Staff Development Staff Day to discuss how they cna further improve their practice of...
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LEARNING BY REFRACTION GOES TO AUSTRALIA
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...
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GO TO THE ‘SUPERMARKET OF EDUCATION’: LEARNING BY REFRACTION GOES TO EUROPE
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...
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IPP WORKSHOP FOR MYANMAR REGENTS
Eleven regents from the Myanmar Region, with one lay volunteer from Singapore, participated in a workshop on Ignatian Pedagogy from the 27th of December to the 30th. The...
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REFRACTED (or, What Happened at the IPP Workshop in Chiangmai)
From the 23rd of September to the 29th, the Seven Fountains Jesuit Retreat Centre was occupied by a total of 42 educators from all over Asia Pacific: Australia,...
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COMING SOON: “Learning by Refraction” Workshop on Ignatian Pedagogy
It’s the 25th anniversary of the seminal 1993 document “Ignatian Pedagogy: A Practical Approach”! What better way to commemorate it than to learn about the IPP from fellow...
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IGNITE WORKSHOP ON IGNATIAN PEDAGOGY
“LEARNING BY REFRACTION: CONVERSATIONS ON IGNATIAN PEDAGOGY” (Training on Ignatian Learning and Teaching – TILT III)
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RE-IMAGINING JESUIT EDUCATION WORKSHOP
From the 18th to the 27th of December 2017, 33 scholastics and brothers in formation from the Asia Pacific region gathered on the campus of Sacred Heart School-Ateneo...
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‘Learning by Refraction’ comes to Galway – Educate Magis
In June of this year, we, the Educate Magis team, were delighted to welcome Fr. Johnny Go, SJ, Education Delegate for Asia Pacific, back to our office in Galway. As well as working on the adaptation of the ‘Learning by Refraction’ course to the Educate Magis platform and discussing our collaboration between Educate Magis and Asia Pacific, Johnny kindly facilitated a follow-up workshop for the Educate Magis team on the IPP and ‘Learning by Refraction’.
JECSE organizes IPP training for Ignatian educators in Alicante, Spain
Finally, the long-planned Learning by Refraction/Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP) Trainers’ Training Workshop organized by Jesuit European Committee for Primary and Secondary Education (JECSE) was held from October 3 to7, 2022 in El Campello, Alicante, Spain. Coming from 17 countries in Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific, a total of 42 educators converged in Casa Salesiano for this truly global program, hosted by our friends from Educación Jesuitas (EDUCSI).
30 educators from Europe train for Learning by Refraction
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.
Learning by Refraction: Re-Introducing Ignatian Pedagogy
In February this year a group of teachers from Saint Ignatius’ College, Riverview attended a workshop “Learning by Refraction” led by Fr. Johnny Go in Sydney. We were all thoroughly engaged and enthusiastic in aiming towards bringing this re-imagined Ignatian Pedagogy to our staff.
