Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education

For those attending the AESA Conference 2023 in Louisville, KY, please join us at presentations by PhD students in Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship Program and Institute affiliated faculty and researchers! Hope to see you all there!!

On April 27, 2023, Daisaku Ikeda issued a statement on the G7 Hiroshima Summit, the Ukraine Crisis and No First Use of Nuclear Weapons. Calling it “a prescription for hope,” Ikeda also urges all people to work together transcending national differences for achieving world peace. He writes "As the G7 leaders revisit the actual consequences of a nuclear weapon detonation and the bitter lessons of the nuclear era, I urge that they initiate earnest deliberations on making pledges of No First Use so that their shared recognition of the inadmissible nature of nuclear weapons can find expression in changed policies.”

To read the full statement, please visit: https://www.daisakuikeda.org/sub/resources/works/lect/2023apr27-g7-hiroshima-stmt.html

For those attending the AERA conference 2023 in Chicago, please join us at presentations in Ikeda/Soka Studies in Education! Hope to see you all there💫✨

The DePaul University Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education is thrilled to host the 3rd International Conference on Ikeda/Soka Studies in Education!!!

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Interdependence, Literary Selfhood, and the Restoration of Humanity

August 17 – 18, 2023 (in-person)
August 19, 2023 (virtual)

DePaul University / Chicago, Illinois (USA)
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For more details of the conference as well as proposal guidelines, please visit our website at https://ikedainstitute.com/
Email questions to [email protected]

Thank you so much to those who attended the 2023 Ikeda Lecture!!🎉🎉🎉 More than 1,200 people from around the world joined to hear renowned peace educator Monisha Bajaj speak on this year's theme of Peace, Creative Coexistence, and Human Rights Education.

It's TODAY!! Ikeda Lecture, “Peace, Creative Coexistence, and Human Rights Education” with Monisha Bajaj!🎉💫✨ Hope to see you all there!!
January 25 (Wed)📆
6PM CST Zoom💻
Read more about the event: https://ikedainstitute.com/
Please register from here: https://bit.ly/3HcUlmp to receive the event Zoom link.

It's TOMORROW!! Ikeda Lecture, “Peace, Creative Coexistence, and Human Rights Education” with Monisha Bajaj!🎉💫✨
January 25 (Wed)📆
6PM CST Zoom💻
Read more about the event: https://ikedainstitute.com/
Please register from here: https://bit.ly/3HcUlmp to receive the event Zoom link.

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"At the heart of much of the work of peace and human rights education across contexts is both reflective and ongoing engagement and praxis, and the possibilities of imagining and working toward more just and sustainable futures."

— From Monisha Bajaj's co-authored book with Maria H., Educating for Peace and Human Rights: An Introduction

2 Days till Ikeda Lecture, “Peace, Creative Coexistence, and Human Rights Education” with Monisha Bajaj!🎉💫✨
January 25 (Wed)📆
6PM CST Zoom💻
Read more about the event: https://ikedainstitute.com/
Please register from here: https://bit.ly/3HcUlmp to receive the event Zoom link.
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"The more difficult the situation appears to be, the more important it is to engage in dialogue based on a commitment to peace and creative coexistence."
—Daisaku Ikeda (2013 Peace Proposal)

3 Days till Ikeda Lecture, “Peace, Creative Coexistence, and Human Rights Education” with Monisha Bajaj!🎉💫✨
January 25 (Wed)📆
6PM CST Zoom💻
Read more about the event: https://ikedainstitute.com/
Please register from here: https://bit.ly/3HcUlmp to receive the event Zoom link.

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"schools can open up students to new worlds, new ideas, and new possibilities. And, especially for immigrant and refugee children, schools can help them dream beyond their past and present realities – oftentimes realities that have been traumatic enough to spur their migration – to envision a future that transcends current structures of inequality and exclusion."

— From Monisha Bajaj's co-authored book with Daniel W., Lesley B., and Gabriela M., Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth: 20 Strategies for the ​Classroom and Beyond

5 Days till Ikeda Lecture, “Peace, Creative Coexistence, and Human Rights Education” with Monisha Bajaj!🎉💫✨
January 25 (Wed)📆
6PM CST Zoom💻
Read more about the event: https://ikedainstitute.com/
Please register from here: https://bit.ly/3HcUlmp to receive the event Zoom link.
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"Communities that have endured great pain and suffering have a unique potential to convey a powerful message, serving as a source of hope and encouragement to other communities struggling with similar problems."
—Daisaku Ikeda (2013 Peace Proposal)

7 Days till Ikeda Lecture, “Peace, Creative Coexistence, and Human Rights Education” with Monisha Bajaj!🎉💫✨
January 25 (Wed)📆
6PM CST Zoom💻
Read more about the event: https://ikedainstitute.com/
Please register from here: https://bit.ly/3HcUlmp to receive the event Zoom link.
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"An educator may never know all the details of a student’s past, but care and compassion can offer students the space to learn and thrive in a school community."
— From Monisha Bajaj's co-authored book with Daniel W., Lesley B., and Gabriela M., Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth: 20 Strategies for the ​Classroom and Beyond

We look forward to seeing you at the Ikeda Lecture on January 25, 2023! In preparation, please see Daisaku Ikeda’s January 11th “Statement on the Ukraine Crisis and No First Use of Nuclear Weapons.” Calling for “the earliest possible resolution to the Ukraine crisis,” Mr. Ikeda emphasizes that “now is the time for all countries and peoples to come together to once again unleash...creative powers and bring into being a new chapter in human history.”

Visit https://www.daisakuikeda.org/sub/resources/works/lect/2023jan11-stmt-on-ukraine-crisis-and-nfu.html to read the full statement.

10 Days till Ikeda Lecture, “Peace, Creative Coexistence, and Human Rights Education” with Monisha Bajaj!🎉💫✨
January 25 (Wed)📆
6PM CST Zoom💻
Read more about the event: https://ikedainstitute.com/
Please register from here: https://bit.ly/3HcUlmp to receive the event Zoom link.
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"Throughout this proposal, I have stressed that interactions with other people and the support of society as a whole can provide a sense of connection and help people regain hope and dignity, no matter how challenging their present circumstances may be."
—Daisaku Ikeda (2013 Peace Proposal)

15 Days till Ikeda Lecture, “Peace, Creative Coexistence, and Human Rights Education” with Monisha Bajaj!🎉💫✨
January 25 (Wed)📆
6PM CST Zoom💻
Read more about the event: https://ikedainstitute.com/
Please register from here: https://bit.ly/3HcUlmp to receive the event Zoom link.

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• The compassion that never abandons others to suffer alone
• The wisdom to perceive the equality and possibilities of life
• The courage to make our differences the impetus for the elevation of our humanity

"I believe that the challenge of constructing a global society of peace and creative coexistence begins with the recognition that all people inherently possess these qualities. I also believe that the social mission of religion in the twenty-first century must be to encourage the flowering of these capacities. It must bring people together in an ethos of reverence for life's dignity and worth."
—Daisaku Ikeda (2013 Peace Proposal)

20 Days till Ikeda Lecture, “Peace, Creative Coexistence, and Human Rights Education” with Monisha Bajaj!🎉💫✨

January 25 (Wed)📆
6PM CST Zoom💻
Read more about the event: https://ikedainstitute.com/
Please register from here: https://bit.ly/3HcUlmp to receive the event Zoom link.

"Our efforts to improve the human condition must be more than mere stopgap measures; they must enable people struggling in the face of dire threats to recover the hope and strength needed to lead lives of dignity. Steadily bringing such efforts to fruition, we must take on the larger challenge of transforming the currents of history from destruction to construction, from confrontation to coexistence, from divisiveness to solidarity."
—Daisaku Ikeda (2013 Peace Proposal)

Join Us for the 2023 (virtual) Ikeda Lecture🎉

Peace, Creative Coexistence and Human Rights Education

The DePaul University Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education is pleased to welcome Monisha Bajaj to give the 2023 Ikeda Lecture, “Peace, Creative Coexistence, and Human Rights Education.” Professor of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco, Dr. Bajaj is an internationally renowned author and educator. Her scholarship on peace, human rights, migration, racial justice, and education has been recognized with multiple prestigious awards, including the Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

In this lecture commemorating Ikeda’s 40 years of annual peace proposals, Dr. Bajaj brings her influential work and perspectives into dialogue with Ikeda’s, engaging especially with his 2013 proposal on the transformative power of education to bolster human dignity, agency, and the wisdom of courageous empathy to build a global society of peace, creative coexistence, and human rights. This event is free and open to the public. Please register from here: https://bit.ly/3HcUlmp to receive the event Zoom link.

WEDNESDAY
January 25, 2023
6:00 - 7:30 pm CST (Virtual Event)

Questions: [email protected]

***This event provides 2 Continuing Professional Development Units (CPDUs) for Illinois teachers. If you are an Illinois teacher seeking CPDUs for your attendance, please email [email protected] to receive the appropriate documentation.

These Zoom information sessions are Thursday, November 10th or 7pm CST. These are duplicate sessions. Click the link below to RSVP. With this asynchronous, fully online program, you can take classes from anywhere in the world!🌎✨
Register for 11am CDT session: https://bit.ly/3DlHVoX
Register for 7pm CDT session: https://bit.ly/3zwJsXZ
Visit the program website: https://go.depaul.edu/VCE-PhD
Email questions to us at [email protected]

These Zoom information sessions are Friday, June 3rd or 7pm CDT. These are duplicate sessions. Click the link below to RSVP. With this asynchronous, fully online program, you can take classes from anywhere in the world!🌎✨

Register for 11am CDT session: https://bit.ly/3wFKleH
Register for 7pm CDT session: https://bit.ly/3LvjGXt

Visit the program website: https://go.depaul.edu/VCE-PhD
Email questions to us at [email protected]

Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum and Context received the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the Society of Professors of Education.

The Society of Professors of Education is one of the oldest and most respected academic associations in the country. Established in 1902, its founding members include John Dewey, Charles DeGarmo, and Walter B. Jacobs.

Congratulations!!🎉

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Those attending AERA conference 2022, please join us at presentations in Ikeda/Soka Studies in Education!

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DAISAKU IKEDA AND PEACE, JUSTICE, AND VALUE CREATION AS CURRICULUM

Jason Goulah

in Theorizing Nonviolence and Peace in Curriculum Studies: International Conversations on Interdependence in a Worldwide Pandemic

Thu, April 21, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT
San Diego Convention Center, Floor: Level, Room 1B

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HOPE AND JOY IN CURRICULUM STUDIES: ENGAGING WITH DAISAKU IKEDA'S THOUGHT

Isabel Nuñez, Nozomi Inukai, Francyne Huckaby, John Lupinacci, D. Joe Ohlingr & Jason Goulah

Fri, April 22, 11:30am to 1:00pm PDT
Manchester Grand Hyatt, Floor: 2nd Level, Harbor Tower, Balboa BC

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ENACTING CARE AS THE FOUNDATION FOR EQUITABLE EDUCATION: A SELF-STUDY OF BUDDHIST COMPASSION

Melissa Riley Bradford & Nozomi Inukai

in Teacher Education in Times of Social/Institutional Crisis

Sat, April 23, 2:30 to 4:00pm PDT
Manchester Grand Hyatt, Floor: 3rd Level, Seaport Tower, Solana Beach AB

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HUMAN EDUCATION IN THE POSTHUMAN ANTHROPOCENE

Jason Goulah

in Reexamining Place-Based Interdependencies Toward Equitable Education (Table 16)

Sun, April 24, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT
San Diego Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B

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HUMAN EDUCATION AND PLACA THROUGH THE LENS OF CURRERE

Melissa Riley Bradford & Nozomi Inukai

in Reexamining Place-Based Interdependencies Toward Equitable Education (Table 16)

Sun, April 24, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT
San Diego Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B

We are thrilled to announce DePaul University's NEW online PhD program in Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship, starting this Spring quarter🎉✨ If you’re interested, join us for a virtual information session!

This free Zoom information session is Friday, February 11th @ 11am and 7pm CST. These are DUPLICATE sessions.
Register for 11am CST session: https://bit.ly/3GfUyBb
Register for 7pm CST session: https://bit.ly/34chVP3

With this asynchronous, fully online PhD program, you can take classes from anywhere in the world💫🌎 Email questions to us at [email protected]

Please check out new publication!
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In the foreword, Jason Goulah (DePaul University) stated that "...Ikeda has for more than seven decades advanced education and lifelong learning as the surest means of truly human becoming, peaceful coexistence, and genuine happiness for oneself and others."

Do you want to become a global citizen? Are you interested in the educational ideas of Daisaku Ikeda, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, and Josei Toda? If so, join us for a virtual information session on our fully online degree and credential programs in Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship!💫🌎

This free Zoom information session is Thursday, January 27th.
We have TWO SAME sessions in one day.

Register for 11am CDT session: https://bit.ly/3t13kQE
Register for 7pm CDT session: https://bit.ly/3zv1uJ2

You can take classes from anywhere in the world! Email questions to us at [email protected]

DePaul University offers a course on value-creating approaches to society, knowledge, and power in Winter quarter, starting from January 2022! For more information, please visit https://ikedainstitute.com/vce/ or email us: [email protected]

Check out our Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship program!🌍✨

Do you want to become a global citizen? Are you interested in the educational ideas of Daisaku Ikeda, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, and Josei Toda? If so, join us for a virtual information session on our fully online degree and credential programs in Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship!

This free Zoom information session is Monday, October 25th at 7pm CDT. Click here to RSVP: https://bit.ly/3uWywzf. You can begin classes this winter from anywhere in the world! Email questions to us at [email protected]

The Harvard Graduate School of Education Gutman Library will host a virtual book talk on Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum and Context. This free event is Thursday, Oct 14th 3-4pm CDT and features co-editors Isabel Nuñez and Institute director, Jason Goulah. Join us and hear about fostering hope and joy in education at this challenging time! RSVP for log-in details.

RSVP link: bit.ly/HopeAndJoyInEdu

Ethics In Education Network spoke with Institute director Jason Goulah and Dr. Isabel Nuñez about their recently published book, “Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda across Curriculum and Context.” Visit the page below to listen to the talk!

The power of happiness: A Buddhist approach to secular education - Ethical Schools We speak with Drs. Isabel Nuñez and Jason Goulah, editors of "Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda across curriculum and context." According to Ikeda, the internationally-famous Buddhist philosopher, education should first and foremost engender happiness and instill habits of global ci...

Institute’s research fellow and DePaul University doctoral candidate, Ritsuko Rita wrote a book chapter, titled “The Poetic Mind: The Key to Creating Hope and Joy in Education” in the newly published book, “Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum and Context”!

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We hope everyone is having a great week! Today we are reflecting a Hope and Joy chapter by Ritsuko Rita, doctoral candidate at DePaul University. In her chapter, "The Poetic Mind: The Key to Creating Hope and Joy in Education," she describes how we can cultivate a poetic mind by engaging in dialogue with poetry! She writes, "...engagement with poetry is a dialogic process, requiring both poets and readers to openly share their views of experience and life."

Do you ever engage in dialogue with your favorite poems? Please share with us in the comments below!⁣