ALL THINGS IGNATIAN IN EDUCATION

UPCOMING WORKSHOP IN SEPTEMBER 2017

The Ignatian Initiative for Teacher Excellence (IGNITE) is happy to offer a new workshop for our educators in Asia Pacific: THE PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION FOR JESUIT EDUCATION, to be held from September 24 (Sunday) to 30 (Saturday), 2017 at Seven Fountains Spirituality Centre in Chiangmai, Thailand.

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The workshop aims to provide an overview of the history and tradition of Jesuit education and invites Ignatian educators to appreciate the personal vocation in the context of the Jesuit mission of education, as well as to appropriate the Jesuit vision for the educational apostolate—particularly, the so-called Characteristics of Jesuit Education, as well as its aims as captured by the 4 Cs (Conscience, Competence, Compassion, and Commitment).
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WORKSHOP ON COMMUNAL DISCERNMENT AND IGNATIAN DECISION MAKING

A total of 37 participants found themselves at the Good Shepherd Spirituality Center for the very first offering of the second WISL (Workshop on Ignatian School Leadership), entitled “Workshop on Communal Discernment and Ignatian Decision Making.” The participants represented schools from four countries in Asia Pacific: Australia, Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines.

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Ms. Eva Galvey of the Emmaus Center for Psycho-Spiritual Formation, longtime formator of Jesuits in the Philippine Province, collaborated with Fr. Johnny Go SJ, JCAP Education secretary, to design and offer an experience of communal apostolic discernment for the participants. The goal was to draw from this experience to find a way to add a dimension of communal discernment to the way we make decisions in our schools.

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WHAT WISL 2 MEANT TO ME

Note: This is a reflection from one of the participants of the Workshop on Communal Discernment and Ignatian Decision Making. Mr. John Bilog is a faculty member of the Ateneo de Manila Senior High School. 

My experience at WISL 2 was like that of a refugee being taken in by the openness and hospitality of strangers with a shared mission.

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I would first like to share a bit about my context before I headed to the mountains of Antipolo for this week-long workshop. The K-12 education reform has cast my school community out of what we considered our home as far back as we could remember. New structures had to be established to meet the demands of a changing landscape initiated by our government, and these came with a steep price. Longstanding traditions were uprooted, familiar practices were displaced, and all our comfort zones were stripped away. Adjusting has been harder for us who have been with the school for a longer time, as we hold more memories and feel more sentiment towards how we were as a community in the now seemingly distant past. Our administration has held sessions on transition management and venues for feedback. But more and more of us have become concerned and ask about decisions that were made as we go along the way. (more…)

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ON FORMING PERSONS OF COMPETENCE, CONSCIENCE, COMPASSION, AND COMMITMENT

Fr. Roberto Boholst SJ is the Director of the the four-year old Colegio de Santo Inacio de Loyola at Kasait, East Timor, and Jesuit Education Delegate of the Independent Region of East Timor. Here he writes about his experiences and insights from the JCAP Colloquium on the 4 Cs held at the Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from the 21st to 23rd of September 2016.

Educators, both Jesuits and lay, from all over Asia and the Pacific gathered in Jogjakarta, Indonesia from September 21 to 23 for an in-depth discussion of the implementation of the so-called “4 Cs” in our schools: Competence, Conscience, Compassion, and Commitment.  Fr. Jose A. Mesa, S.J., the Secretary for Secondary and Pre-Secondary Education of the Society of Jesus was the keynote speaker.

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The group photo of all the delegates after the colloquium

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A STUDENT LEADER LOOKS BACK AT ISLF 2017

This reflection on the recently concluded IGNATIAN STUDENT LEADERSHIP FORUM in Yogyakarta is from Chia Yu Lin, a student from St. Aloysius Technical School, Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan.

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Chia Yu Lin

 The Ignatian Student Leadership Forum (ISLF) was held from August 15 to 21 in 2016 in Jogjakarta of Indonesia. The forum aims at making young students from Jesuit high schools in the Asian region learn how to be a good leader and know the importance of self-reflection. As I heard about the news that I was chosen to attend this forum, I became a little nervous. For one thing, I was one of only two participants from Taiwan; for another, we needed to take the flight to Indonesia without any teacher to accompany us. I began to think that it might be a dangerous journey. But after thinking for a while, I thought I would just need to be very careful during the trip. I couldn’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.  (more…)

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