On 11 May 2024, a group of faculty members of the Jezuickie Centrum Edukacji in Nowy Sącz, Poland, gathered on a Saturday to talk about the Learning by Refraction Approach to Ignatian Pedagogy.
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 year’s colloquium—organized as always by Tim Caslin and Mike Chambers, Provincial Assistant and Associate Provincial Assistant for Secondary and Pre-Secondary Education, respectively—focused on Ignatian Pedagogy, specifically, the Learning by Refraction approach.
Fr. Johnny Go SJ, author of the book of the same title, flew in from Manila to introduce the participants to this contemporary and practical approach and to guide them in thinking and talking about concrete ways of implementing the IPP.
Fr. Go offered “conversation pieces” to provoke thinking and talking about Ignitian Pedagogy.
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St Ignatius of Loyola Catholic College is a brand new Companion School in New Zealand, a historic first, a dream that took decades to fulfill! Companion schools in the Australian provinces are schools that have embraced the Ignatian charism. And what better way for St. Ignatius to prepare for its inaugural class of students than equipping its teachers with the distinctively Ignatian brand of learning and teaching: the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm?
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 for a trainers’ training workshop on Learning by Refraction (LbR). The three-and-a-half-day workshop, which ran from October 13 to 16, 2023, was Read more…
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 University (CI-ADMU) on 1 July 2023. The talk by the Dean of the Gokongwei Brothers School of Education and Learning Design (GBSEALD) opened CI-ADMU’s first face-to-face faculty meeting in four years. It was attended by 20 CI-ADMU teachers, including CI Director Dr. Ellen Palanca and Chinese Director Dr. Cynthia Liang.
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 Jin SJ, Director and Vice-Director of Cambodia Xavier Jesuit School, Read more…
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 to 7, 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 Read more…
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.
