Last January 2024, at the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Jesuit School, St. Stanislas College in Delft, the Netherlands, the Dutch edition of Learning by Refraction was launched, and each of their teachers was presented a copy of the book. St. Stanislaas is actually not one school, but Read more…
Some faculty of the Niels Steensens Gymnasium met with Fr. Johnny Go SJ one Wednesday afternoon to discuss Jesuit education and Ignatian Pedagogy. On 21 May 2024, the teachers from both the primary and secondary school of the Jesuit school in Copenhagen joined the conversation, reflecting in particular on how Ignatian Pedagogy might help them teach more effectively given today’s challenges.
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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.
On 19 April 2024, over 100 faculty members of St. Aloysius College in Birkirkara, Malta gathered for their professional development day. It was a day dedicated to conversations about Ignatian Pedagogy—particularly, the so-called “Learning by Refraction” approach originated by Fr. Johnny Go SJ and Ms. Rita Atienza of the Philippines.
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…
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 Ecopark in Baguio City for the “Learning by Refraction” Trainers’ Training Lab.
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 Term III professional development program.
Consisting of two sessions, the first focused on the development of the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP) and considered its context in the contemporary world. After a deep dive into the idea of Reflection led by Fr Ross Jones SJ, the staff then took part in a session facilitated by Fr Johnny Go SJ, author of Learning by Refraction.
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.
