Ikeda Research Institute for Soka Education
Issue 7/ September 27, 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 University Institute for Daisaku Ikeda
Studies in Education holds international forum
on Value-Creating Education for Global
Citizenship
On August 25-26, the Institute for Daisaku Ikeda
Studies in Education at DePaul University, USA,
held an international forum on Value-Creating
Education for Global Citizenship. The forum
featured two sessions, the first examining the key
concepts of truth and value in Tsunesaburo
Makiguchi four-volume work, The System of ValueCreating Pedagogy. Misunderstanding about what
Makiguchi means by these terms persists in theAnglophone academy because of unavailable orincomplete translations of Makiguchi’s writings andconflation with how these terms are understood anddefined in the Western canon, including for example
in the work of influential American philosopher JohnDewey. Framed by a new translation of The Systemof Value-Creating Pedagogy undertaken by theInstitute, the first daylong session focused on truth
and value in Makiguchi’s philosophy and its
implications for research and practice invalue-creating education for global citizenship incontemporary contexts. A panel comprising thetranslators of the forthcoming edition—including
renowned Dewey scholar Jim Garrison, professor ofPhilosophy of Education at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, and faculty from DePaul’s degree programsinValue-Creating
EducationforGlobalCitizenship—examined a key excerpt from the newtranslation and discussed what Makiguchi means by
truth and value and how that differs fromperspectives in the work of Dewey and others.
This second forum session was designed specificallyfor emerging scholars and students enrolled in
DePaul’s doctoral program in Value-Creating
Education for Global Citizenship. The session
provided a space for students to meet, learn about
each other’s lines of inquiry and engage with
program faculty about the previous day’s session,
share thoughts on program themes and join thescholarly discourse and undertake meaningfulresearch as we expand the fields of value-creating
education for global citizenship and Ikeda/Sokastudies in education.
Session participants explored the substance andscope of value creation and global citizenshipnecessary for all artistic expression, humaneducation and transformative schooling, and forcontributive responses to social, political andenvironmental issues across disciplines in schools
and universities, civil society and cultural
institutions, global health and corporate sectors, andnongovernmental and faith organizations. The
session also provided students a unique opportunity
to engage in open-hearted exchange with Prof.
Garrison about these and other topics, including his
published dialogue with Daisaku Ikeda.

SpainIEDDAI of University of Alcalá in Spain releases“Cuadernos Del Instituto Ikeda,” Vol. 4
On December 2021, the University of Alcalá’s
Daisaku Ikeda Research Institute for Education andDevelopment (IEDDAI) has released the fourthvolume of “Cuadernos Del Instituto Ikeda,” theSpanish-language academic journal for Ikeda studies.
The latest issue features lectures and papers
submitted at the 11th International Academic
Symposium on the Philosophy of Daisaku Ikeda heldat Soka University in October 2021. The journal also
includes a reprint of Mr. Ikeda’s address, “Thoughts
on Education for Global Citizenship,” delivered atTeachers College, Columbia University on June 13,
1996. Published on a biannual basis, “Cuadernos Del
Instituto Ikeda” will be including articles and papers,
primarily in Spanish, on IEDDAI’s research andactivities going forward.

Daisaku Ikeda on Nuclear
Abolition
Ahead of the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties
to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons (NPT), Daisaku Ikeda, president of the SGI,
issued a statement urging that No First Use be taken
up as a priority issue within the NPT framework.
Statement to 2022 NPT Review Conference Callingfor No First Use of Nuclear Weapons (July 26, 2022)| Daisaku Ikeda Website

This Issue’s Selected Writing
Goulah, J. (2021). Introduction: Daisaku Ikeda, andhope and joy in education. In I. Nuñez & J. Goulah(Eds.), Hope and joy in education: Engaging
Daisaku Ikeda across curriculum and context (pp.
xiii-xxxiv). Teachers College Press.
https://www.tcpress.com/hope-and-joy-ineducation-9780807765104

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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
for November 18, 2022.