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Graduate Certificate On Higher Education Learning and Teaching

Effective August 2019, the Ateneo de Manila is launching a Graduate Certificate Program for Higher Education Learning and Teaching. Customized for the Ateneo educator, this unique professional development program aims to strengthen the Ignatian character of Jesuit education by expanding the participants’ expertise in the science and art of learning and teaching.

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Lessons for Further Studies Abroad

Last May 7, the Ateneo SALT Institute, together with the Loyola Schools Office of Placement and Career Services and the Ateneo EDGE, organized an afternoon PassTheSALT panel on Careers in the Academe and Further Studies Abroad at the JJ Atencio Lighthouse for New Learning

Professors Cuyegkeng, Sarmiento, Veric, and Canuday share about their experiences with students

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2019 IWM Conference on “Christian Education and Humanism in the Global Context”

From the 22nd until the 22nd of March 2019, the Ateneo SALT Institute participated in an international conference on “Christian Education and Humanism in the Global Context.”  SALT was represented by its Director, Fr. Johnny Go SJ, and Ms. Rita Atienza, Incoming Director of the Ateneo Teacher Center (ATC).

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LMU prof talks about Freire’s pedagogy of love

In a lecture with faculty, students, and development workers at the Areté’s Loft, an acclaimed US professor introduced and deepened concepts that find their roots in Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy.

Dr. Antonia Darder speaks to a full crowd at the Areté’s fourth floor

The February 1 evening talk featured Antonia Darder, the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership at the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.Read More »LMU prof talks about Freire’s pedagogy of love

Learning by Refraction launched

In line with the 25th anniversary of the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP), the Ateneo de Manila University Press, the Ateneo SALT Institute, and the Jesuit Basic Education Commission (JBEC) launched the book Learning by Refraction: A Practitioner’s Guide to 21st-Century Ignatian Pedagogy last January 15 at the fourth floor of the Areté’s George S.K. Ty Learning Innovation Wing.

The authors with JBEC educators and administrators

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Education Frontiers Videos

Watch videos of the presentations from the International Conference on Educational Frontiers, a gathering of more than 300 educators, researchers, professors and teachers at the Ateneo de Manila University last October 3 to 6, 2018. In this first video, McCann Worldgroup’s Gino Borromeo talks about findings on the youth. In this second video, Education University of Hong Kong’s Dr. Christine Halse speaks about ways to create and foster intercultural education. In this last… Read More »Education Frontiers Videos

SALT opens the JJ Atencio Lighthouse for New Learning with inaugural symposium

What better way to open the JJ Atencio Lighthouse for New Learning than by hosting a symposium on “Learning New”?

Last October 10, the Ateneo SALT Institute launched the JJ Atencio Lighthouse for New Learning at the Loft of the fourth floor of the Areté with an inaugural symposium that offered talks and panel discussions with art historians, teachers, entrepreneurs, and journalists.

The symposium culminated in a performance art, the blessing of the Lighthouse and the marker for a scholarship fund, and a program to celebrate the life of Dr. Rosario Bustos-Atencio.

Benefactor JJ  Atencio welcomes the students to the inaugural symposium

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Jesuit Frontiers in Education

“The word frontier is in [the Jesuit] DNA.”

This was how Fr. Michael Garanzini SJ started his plenary speech for the post-conference for Jesuit educational institutions at the International Conference on Educational Frontiers last October 6, 2018 at the Leong Hall Auditorium.

Fr. Garanzini is the Secretary for Higher Education of the Society of Jesus and had also been the President for 14 years of Loyola University Chicago.

Fr. Garanzini talks about new frontiers for Jesuit schools

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Five Key Insights to Understand the Youth Today

Despite the changes in technologies and the world, one thing has not changed: “Being young is about finding yourself, your people, and your place in the world.”

On the first day of the International Conference on Educational Frontiers, Gino Borromeo of McCann Worldgroup spoke about the youth of today and shared the findings of their organization’s international study with 33,000 interviews and a sample covering those aged 16 to 30.

From the key trends and ideas that Gino discussed, we distill five important ideas. Note that there are significant country and cultural differences, and this is but a short–and necessarily limited–summary.

Gino Borromeo delivering the keynote lecture (Photo credits: Mr. Samuel Macagba III)

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