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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.

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 Schools Australia were engaged in a four-day workshop entitled “Learning by Refraction: A Practitioner’s Guide to 21^st Century Ignatian Pedagogy.” The workshop was held at St. Peter Canisius House, Pymble, Australia from the 23rd to the 27th of February 2020.

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. (Listen to an interview with Fr Go about the topic.)

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 workshop, conducted by Fr. Johnny Go SJ, Asia Pacific education secretary and director of the Ateneo de Manila SALT Institute, was held at the newly opened Myanmar Leadership Institute (MLI) in Yangon.

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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, Cambodia, East Timor, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Philippines, and Taiwan. And as one has come to expect from the typical IGNITE workshop of the Jesuit Asia Pacific Conference, the diversity of the culture and experiences of the participants spelled all the difference in the workshop experience.

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