The Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific held a three-day conversation with four new Jesuit school leaders from November 7 to 10, 2022 in the Ateneo de Manila University. The attendees were Fr. Park Jin Hyuk SJ and Fr. Kim Tae Read more…
After two years of meeting virtually, the International Commission on Jesuit Education (ICAJE) finally met face-to-face in Rome from May 17th to the 20th. The meeting was organized by Jose Alberto Mesa SJ, who heads the Society’s Secretariat for Secondary and Pre-Secondary Education. With the exception of Raimundo Barros SJ, President of FLACSI, all the regional delegates made it to the Jesuit Curia: Joe Arimoso SJ (Africa & Madagascar), Ms. Agnieszka Baran (Europe), Johnny Go SJ (Asia Pacific), John Ravi SJ (South Asia), and Bob Reiser SJ (North America).
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 J. Atienza collaborated on a workbook intriguingly called Learning by Refraction: A Practitioners’ Guide to 21st-Century Ignatian Pedagogy.
From June 28th to July 2nd, 2021, leaders and educators from the Jesuit Global Network of Schools congregated online for their second Jesuit education global colloquium. The first was of course historic–held nine years ago in Boston College, USA, where over 400 delegates participated.
This second gathering, however, was just as historic. Due to the pandemic, the planned on-site colloquium in Jogjakarta last year was cancelled. Instead, this fully online colloquium took its place.
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 is written by Linda O’Hara, one of the lead teachers there.
Our Ignatian Pedagogy training day consisted of three distinct parts: an address and Q & A with a guest speaker, staff discussions in smaller groups and subject department group meetings. The day closed with a whole-staff plenary session.
(more…)This article is reprinted from the JCAP 2021 Annual Report. The author is Fr. Johnny Go SJ.
What makes Jesuit education Jesuit in the digital age?
In the last year, educators everywhere found themselves involved in an unforeseen global teaching experiment. As a result of the Pandemic and the resulting suspension of onsite classes in many schools, teachers had to quickly learn how to pivot to online teaching..
Few of our teachers had been prepared for this shift to off-site learning. In many countries in Asia Pacific, teachers scrambled to migrate to online learning, with little time to find ways to equip themselves with the skills to deliver their courses online.
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 of the Catholic Education Council of Thailand.
The book was written by Fr. Johnny Go SJ and Rita J. Atienza and was published by the Ateneo de Manila University Press and the Jesuit Basic Education Commission on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the publication of Ignatian Pedagogy: A Practical Approach. Neither author expected that the book would be used outside the Philippines.
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 Ignatian Pedagogy. This article was authored by Sharon McLean.
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. However, Covid 19 meant staff were immersed in a new range of professional learning activities to provide online learning for our students and our plans were delayed. At the commencement of this term we were able to focus on embracing “Learning by Refraction” during a Staff Development day developed by our Head of Professional Learning, Jennifer Jackson. Zoom webinar, smaller face-to-face workshop groups and Faculty discussions were held during the day.
Listen to this podcast on LEARNING BY REFRACTION, where Fr. Johnny Go, one of the authors, was interviewed by Pat Coyle of Jesuit Communications, Ireland. Fr Johnny Go SJ, a Jesuit educationalist from the Philippines, was in Ireland recently to give a three-day workshop to the teachers and staff of Jesuit schools both from the Province and from abroad. The event was organised by the Education office in the Irish Jesuit Curia.
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