Developing empowering and empathetic leadership in education that promotes inclusivity and innovation for universal human flourishing
Philippine Education Reform and Transformation
Addressing Learning Problems in Literacy, Numeracy, and STEM peculiar to Philippine public education
Designing 21st-Century Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment, especially in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math
Designing 21st-Century Learning Environments for the Filipino Learner, especially emerging learning modalities and education technologies (e.g., virtual learning, AI, AR/VR, metaverse) given real-world constraints
Implementing Formative Whole-Person Education (includes but is not limited to Socio-Emotional Learning)
Rethinking Teacher Education for a World in Flux
Critical Thinking in Education
Teaching Critical Thinking: How to develop critical thinking among students and especially teachers, especially in a pluralist (and relativist) era where superficial thinking is promoted and claims to truth are often contested
Personal Epistemologies (especially Teacher Epistemologies): How they promote critical thinking and impact student learning and performance
Independent Learning: How to promote it especially given a culture that promotes deference to authority
Challenges to Asian and Filipino educational leadership
Educational Leadership in the Philippine Context and Constraints (History, Systems, Policies)
Teacher Leadership (for Learning)
Ethical and service-oriented leadership
Educational leadership for Sustainability
Educational leadership for Innovation
Catholic and Jesuit Education
Catholic Education: How to define and operationalize 21st-century Catholic education and its underlying philosophy given the contemporary challenges it faces, especially in the promotion of social justice as the hallmark of Catholic education
Catholic Religious Education: How to offer Catholic religious education in a way that nurtures the sensus fidei, promotes reasoned and faithful assent (instead of blind assent–or worse blind dissent) and develops a mature faith for thinking believers
Catholic Education Leadership: How to interpret and develop the brand of leadership demanded by today’s challenges
Ignatian Spirituality in Education: How to solidify Jesuit identity and cultures in our schools and universities
Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (especially the “Learning by Refraction” Approach): How to improve our practice of 21st-century Ignatian Pedagogy?
Ignatian Leadership (especially “Leading by Discernment” Framework): How to operationalize, develop, and assess Ignatian Leadership in practice
