Ikeda Research Institute for Soka Education
Issue 11/ May 18, 2023

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
TaiwanTaiwan’s Chinese Culture University holds forum(follow on to previous issue)
On March 2, the Chinese Culture University (CCU)of Taiwan organized an international forum on theresearch of Daisaku Ikeda’s peace ideals, the first in
four years. The event drew some 400 CCU students
and faculty members and featured presentations
from 16 researchers from eight universities.
In a message contributed on the occasion,
Mr. Ikeda expressed continued faith in the world’s
ability to achieve its SDGs by the stated target of2030 despite such challenges as climate change,
conflicts and infectious diseases, pointing tohumanity’s capacity to overcome every obstruction.
Mr. Ikeda also recalled his meeting with Dr.
Chang Jen-hu, the former Chair of the CCU Board,
during which they exchanged views on the immensetransformative potential of human revolution. The
sharing of SDG’s ideals and principles, in Mr.
Ikeda’s view, will lead to the inspiration of ourcollective humanity, thereby transforming major
crises into rich opportunities to better humankind asa whole. The sublime mission of education, heconcluded, was to drive this transformation forward.
Following words from CCU President Dr.
Wang Tzu-Chi and Soka University President
Masashi Suzuki, Dr. Yoshihisa Baba, the formerpresident of Soka University, delivered the forum’skeynote address. In his speech, Dr. Lin Tsai Mei, theformer president of CCU, said that in a highly
globalized age when the world’s economies wereclosely interconnected, the principles of global
citizenship as advocated by Mr. Ikeda, which arefounded on the humanitarian service to others, willplay a key role in bringing about the betterment ofhumanity. Later in the forum, discussion sessions
based on different themes were held, as were thepresentation of research papers and a Q&A session.

USAIkeda studies seminar held at annual AERA
meeting in Chicago
Included among six featured preconference seminars
was “Peace, Justice, and Creative Coexistence asCurriculum.” The daylong seminar centered on the40 annual peace proposals (1983-2022) of Daisaku
Ikeda, who received the 2020-21 AERA Division B
Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award.
It was facilitated by AERA Vice President
Isabel Nuñez (professor and dean of the School ofEducation at Purdue University Fort Wayne) andJason Goulah (professor and director of the DePaul
University Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies inEducation) and expanded upon themes introduced intheir edited volume Hope and Joy in Education:
Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum andContext (2021, Teachers College Press).
Pre-registered participants included 12
scholars and doctoral students from diverse
backgrounds, disciplines, and institutions in theUnited States and Canada. After sharing selfintroductions and research interests, participants
explored themes from the Ikeda corpus—fromcreativity and value creation to peace, justice andcompassion—to examine the role of humaneducation in confronting persistent, growing, andnew threats from political and social division,
assaults on human dignity and civil rights, mass

surveillance, viral pandemics, nuclear war, awarming planet, and more.
The annual conference also included eightblind reviewed presentations in Ikeda/Soka Studies
in Education by faculty and alumni affiliated with
the DePaul University Institute for Daisaku Ikeda
Studies in Education and its PhD program in ValueCreating Education for Global Citizenship, including“Daisaku Ikeda and African American Pragmatism:
Race, Identity, and Cosmopolitan Becoming in theDewey-Soka Heritage” and “Value Creation andHappiness in Education: Daisaku Ikeda and Asia asMethod” by Goulah.
JapanSoka University’s IRISE releases “SokaEducation No. 16”
The Ikeda Research Institute for Soka Education(IRISE) at Soka University recently published “SokaEducation No.16.” The Japanese-language bulletin
is a special feature on the 1st InternationalSymposium on Global Citizenship Education heldon October 22, 2022. It includes the symposium’s
keynote speeches and various papers presented inparallel sessions.
URL:
https://www.soka.ac.jp/en/edu/publishing/soka_edu
cation16/Daisaku Ikeda’s Statementon the G7 Hiroshima Summit,the Ukraine Crisis and No
First Use of Nuclear Weapons
On April 27, 2023, Daisaku Ikeda, president of theSoka Gakkai International (SGI), issued a statement
calling on the leaders of the G7 countries meeting inHiroshima from May 19–21 to take bold steps
toward resolving the conflict in Ukraine andguarantee the security of all humanity by taking thelead in discussions on pledges of No First Use ofnuclear weapons.
Read the full statement on the Daisaku Ikeda website.

This Issue’s Selected Writing“Embodying Global Citizenship” is a keynote
speech delivered by Prof. Jim Garrison, Professor
Emeritus of Philosophy of Education at Virginia
Tech University at the 1st International Symposium

on Global Citizenship Education held on October 22,2022.

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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 forJuly 18, 2023.