Ikeda Research Institute for Soka Education
Issue 6/ July 18, 2022

Report onIkeda Studies in Education
PurposeThe Report on Ikeda Studies in Education iscompiled and circulated by the Ikeda ResearchInstitute for Soka Education (IRISE) of Soka
University. The Report serves as an informationsharing tool for scholars and researchers of this fieldof study, with the aim of facilitating on a global basis,
further advances in the research of and activities
relevant to Ikeda studies in education.

News Update
USA
DePaul Launches PhD in Value-Creating
Education for Global Citizenship
In March 2022, DePaul University launched a PhD
program in Value-Creating Education for GlobalCitizenship. Offered fully online (asynchronously)
and in person in Chicago, Illinois, this doctoral
program is the first in the world centered on theeducational philosophies of Daisaku Ikeda, Josei
Toda and Tsunesaburo Makiguchi. Taking theirperspectives on global citizenship and value creatingapproaches to knowledge, society and power as astarting point, this degree engages with questions
both urgent and timeless: What does it mean to be acitizen of a complex and interdependent world? How
do we create meaning and happiness for ourselves
and others from life’s most challenging realities?
What kind of education, responsibility andcourageous action are necessary to pioneer a betterage?
The Value-Creating Education for Global
Citizenship PhD program thus examines pressing
and unfolding global issues—from climate change
and nuclear annihilation to threats against humanrights and social justice—as matters of humaneducation and the font of value creation and global
citizenship necessary for professional dispositions,practice and research across disciplines and contexts.
Students take courses on a wide array of topics suchas:••••••

human being and becoming
peacebuilding and justiceimaginative empathy and diverse identities increative coexistencequestions of truth and value
inner transformation and contributive living
dialogue as practice and research

Leveraging the uniquely Eastern, quintessentiallyuniversal philosophies of Daisaku Ikeda and hispredecessors, this degree strengthens candidates’
current practice and prepares them for research,scholarly and professional careers in academic andcultural institutions, organizations and policy centers
and agencies around the world.
For further details visit: https://go.depaul.edu/VCEPhD
SUA Launches Soka Institute for GlobalSolutions
On May 3, Soka University of America (SUA)
launched the Soka Institute for Global Solutions(SIGS), which aims to expand a worldwide
intellectual network of cooperation among experts,
scholars, practitioners, civil society leaders andordinary citizens to develop ways to solve
environmental, developmental, peace and humanrights challenges. SIGS will be developing two
projects at the outset: one on global citizenshipeducation resources for K-12 (kindergarten to 12thgrade) students and the other on the abolition ofnuclear weapons.

Postscript⚫

The idea of establishing the institute came from SUA
founder Daisaku Ikeda’s 1987 peace proposal. In theproposal, Mr. Ikeda wrote that “it is clear that a
program to develop citizens of the world is important
now and will become increasingly important in thetwenty-first century” in an effort to “adopt ascientific and coordinated approach to the solutionsof global problems.”
President of the Sant’Egidio Foundation for Peaceand Dialogue and SUA Board of Trustees member
Andrea Bartoli will serve as its executive advisor,
with SUA Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace andConflict Studies Tetsushi Ogata named as its
managing director.
Malaysia
Visitor Centre Opens at Soka International
School Malaysia
On June 4, the Visitor Centre of Soka International
School Malaysia (SISM) opened in Seremban,
Negeri Sembilan. The launch was attended by a totalof some 800 members, online participants and guests,
including Puan Aniza Kamarulzaman, Deputy
Director of the Private Education Division of theMalaysian Ministry of Education, and President ofSoka University of America Edward M. Feasel. As
SISM founder, Daisaku Ikeda sent a congratulatory
message, expressing his hope that SISM will foster
global citizens who will contribute to global peace
and wellbeing of humanity.

Daisaku Ikeda on Education
For a Sustainable Global Society: Learning forEmpowerment and Leadership (2012)

This Issue’s Selected Writing
Sherman, P., & Boukydis, O. (2020). Framing
Undergraduate Perspectives on Experiential
Learning Within Soka Education Theory IAFOR
Journal of Education: Undergraduate Education,8(3). https://doi.org/10.22492/ije.8.3.05⚫

We welcome comments regarding thisReport as well as suggestions on specificmaterial that it should feature in futureissues. Contact: Ikeda Research Institute forSoka Education (IRISE) of Soka University(IRISE-access@soka.ac.jp)
This Report is issued on a bimonthly basis,
with the next release tentatively scheduled
for September 18, 2022.