ALL THINGS IGNATIAN IN EDUCATION

WHAT MAKES JESUIT EDUCATION JESUIT IN THE DIGITAL AGE?

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.

Dr. Gigi Cuisia-Cruz waiting for a meeting on a rainy Friday morning, her birthday. 
Photo by Dr Cuisia Cruz
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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 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.

A gathering of different heads of Catholic schools in March 2018 for an introduction on “Learning by Refraction” by author Fr. Johnny Go SJ
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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 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.

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THINKING WELL IN THE DIGITAL AGE: LEARNING BY REFRACTION Podcast (from the Irish Jesuits)

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

A total of 32 participants attended the workshop, representing Australia’s ten Jesuit and Companion Schools.
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JESUIT EDUCATION SECRETARY MEETS WITH PHILIPPINE SCHOOL HEADS & PRINCIPALS

On December 9, 2019, the administrators of Jesuit schools in the Philippines congregated in the Loft, Arete on the Ateneo de Manila campus for a very special JBEC meeting. Their special speaker for the day was no other than Fr. Jose Alberto Mesa SJ, the Society of Jesus’ Secretary for Secondary and Pre-secondary Education. Fr. Mesa spent the day with them sharing his thoughts on the new Jesuit education document, “Jesuit Schools: A Living Tradition” and on the notion of leadership in Jesuit schools.

Fr. Jose Mesa SJ with Frs. Mike Pineda SJ, Johnny Go SJ, and Manny Perez SJ after the school-wide Mass on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Ateneo de Davao Grade School and High School
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GEARING UP FOR THE GLOBAL COLLOQUIUM IN JOGJAKARTA IN 2020

II COLLOQUIUM JESEDU JOGJA2020 is just a few months away: June 29 to July 4 next year! Only the second global gathering of its kind, approximately 500 educators and leaders of Jesuit schools from around the world are expected to fly to Jogjakarta for a unique experience: To wrestle with 21st-century issues in teaching and forming our students especially in light of the four Universal Apostolic Preferences.

Presenting the Indonesian team behind all the preparation (from L to R):
Vic Sendy (Staff), Fr. Baskoro Poedjinoegroho SJ (Jogja 2020 Chair),
Himawan Santanu (St. Aloysius, Jakarta), Makarius Pamungkas (Canisius, Jakarta),
Widi Nugroho (Jogja 2020 Director from de Britto, Jogjakarta),
Fr. Gerardus Hadian Panamokta (St. Aloysius, Jakarta),
and Fr. Alexander Koko Siswijayanto SJ (Canisius, Jakarta).
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IGNATIAN TEACHERS PROGRAM (ITP) 2019!

The following reflection was written by Fr. Clement Tsui SJ, the education delegate of the Chinese Province.

The Ignatian Teachers Program (ITP) was held on 11-15 November 2019 at St. Ignatius’ College, Riverview in Sydney, Australia. There were eighteen participants from the following: the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, and Hong Kong. Most of them were experienced teachers, with a few school directors, administrators, and school chaplains.

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