The Dewey-Soka Heritage and the Future of Education

This book examines the contemporary relevance of the ecology of thought and practice present in and inspired by the educational perspectives of John Dewey and the Japanese progenitors of s ka, or "value-creating," approaches to life and education: Makiguchi Tsunesabur , Toda J sei, and Ikeda Daisaku.

This book examines the contemporary relevance of the East-West ecology of thought and practice present in and inspired by the educational perspectives of American philosopher John Dewey (18591952) and the Japanese progenitors of ska, or value-creating, approaches to life and education and the Soka organizations and institutions they advanced embodying and memorializing these in name and ethos: Makiguchi Tsunesabur (18711944), Toda Jsei (19001958), and Ikeda Daisaku (19282023).

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Jason Goulah is professor of bilingual-bicultural education and director of the Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education at DePaul University in Chicago. Gonzalo Obelleiro is assistant professor of curriculum studies at DePaul University in Chicago Jim Garrison is a professor emeritus of philosophy of education at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Dewey-Soka Heritage and the Future of Education

Jason Goulah, Gonzalo Obelleiro, and Jim Garrison

Prologue: Makiguchi Tsunesaburo and John Dewey

Takao Ito

PART I: SPIRITUALITY, RELIGION, AND EDUCATION

1. Uncommon Faiths: John Dewey and Makiguchi Tsunesaburo's Recasting of "Religion"

   Andrew Gebert

2. Buddhist Humanism and Spiritual Democracy

   Steven C. Rockefeller

3. Makiguchi, Ikeda, and Dewey: Geography as a Response to Spiritual Nihilism

   Jim Garrison

4. The Dharma of Lovingkindness and Compassion: Adding Women's Voices to the Dewey-Soka Conversation

   Barbara Thayer-Bacon

5. Teacher Selfhood and the Education of the Global Citizen

   Isabel Nuñez

   PART II: GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP, HOPE, AND THE DEMOCRATIC LIFE

6. Ikeda Daisaku and African American Pragmatism: Race, Identity, Justice, and Cosmopolitan Becoming in the Dewey-Soka Heritage

   Jason Goulah

7. A Growing Crisis in Education (and Some Bright Spots)

   Larry A. Hickman

8. Creating Value, Creative Democracy: Re-envisioning Civic Learning and Life in Dark Times

   Ruthanne Kurth-Schai

9. The Dewey-Soka Heritage: An East~West Convergence of Philosophies of Hope

   Ming Fang He

10. Makiguchi and Dewey on Truth, Knowledge, and Value

    Gonzalo Obelleiro

    PART III: PRAXIS, CURRICULUM, AND THE DEWEY-SOKA HERITAGE

11. Assessment for Growth and Value Creation in the Dewey-Soka Heritage

    Nozomi Inukai and Alexandra I. Cruz

12. Embracing the Dewey-Soka Heritage in Education Research: Relational, Dialogical, and Narrative Ways of Knowing and Being

    Julie Nagashima and Melissa Riley Bradford

13. The Dewey-Soka Heritage as a Lens for the American Experience

    C. Gregg Jorgensen

14. Striving to Create Curriculum by Embodying the Educational Spirit of John Dewey

    and the Founders of the Soka Heritage

    William H. Schubert

    About the Contributors

    Index