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KU now part of “Jesuit Worldwide Learning”

One of many course locations for the “Jesuit Worldwide Learning” program that offers professional development courses to become learning facilitators is the Afghan province Bamyan. As of this winter semester, the KU will participate in the program. Meanwhile, Bamyan has more female than male students. (Photo: Jesuit Worldwide Learning)

As of this winter semester, the KU is a part of the “Jesuit Worldwide Learning” education program with which the Jesuit order provides access to higher education for talented youths in refugee camps and crisis regions from all over the world. For the start of the program, 31 young men and women from Herat and Bamyan (Afghanistan) and from the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya will be enrolled in the course as KU students. They will complete a teacher training course in a combination of online lessons and personal support on site. KU lecturers at the Faculty of Religious Education will provide long-distance support for the students and assess their performance. Following successful completion of the six-month course, graduates of the program will be awarded the “Learning Facilitator” certificate by the university. In their function as learning facilitators, they will in turn provide support for learners in their environment in the context of the Jesuit Worldwide Learning program.

“This offer takes into account that digitalization has not only brought changes to the way we teach, but also to the way we learn. In the future, many more students will sign up for the program, as the need for teachers is immense in many parts of the world. On behalf of JWL and the students, I would like to thank President Gien and her staff for this promising collaboration”, stated the President of Jesuit Worldwide Learning, Father Peter Balleis SJ. Besides the KU, also other universities are official partners of the program – among them the Munich School of Philosophy, Georgetown University in Washington and the Catholic University of Nairobi (Kenya). “Being a Catholic university that specializes in teacher training, we bear a global responsibility to promote education. We want to make use of the advantages offered by digitalization in order to be able to also provide teacher training beyond borders for regions suffering crisis and war”, explains KU President Prof. Dr. Gabriele Gien.

The international Jesuit Refugee Service has been offering study programs in collaboration with US-American Jesuit universities since 2010. The program “Jesuit Worldwide Learning” was established three years ago as an independent initiative seeking to involve higher education institutions from all parts of the world. The study offer includes a Bachelor’s degree program, IT training and English courses as well as training programs in the field of youth social work and learning facilitators.

For further information on the program, please visit: www.jwl.org.

Led by opera singer Laurence Gien (right in picture), the a-capella ensemble “Merry Gentlemen” gave a charity concert at the KU in favor of JWL that also included a cycle of English songs along with German works from the period of Romanticism. (Photo: Gien)
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