Ikeda Research Institute for Soka Education
Issue 14/ November 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
JapanIRISE holds lecture commemorating 20thanniversary of Daisaku Ikeda’s special lecture onGoetheOn September 25, IRISE held a lecture tocommemorate the 20th anniversary of Soka
University founder Daisaku Ikeda’s first lecture on“Goethe, the Man, which he delivered on March 10,2003.
To commemorate the anniversary, Prof.
Ryohei Tanaka, Soka University Vice President andscholar of German literature, delivered a lecture onMr. Ikeda’s thoughts on the German literary giant,whose works he read with relish as a youth. Tanaka
also shared his own perspectives on the life andlegacy of Goethe, which included the principles ofglobal citizenship and appreciation of literature fromother cultures.
A member of The Goethe Society in Japan,Tanaka has long contributed to research on Goetheand published works in Japanese on the subjectmatter.

Japan
Director of University of Guelph-Humber’s Soka
Education Research Centre on Global
Citizenship delivers special lecture at Soka
UniversityOn November 1, 2023, Dr. Paul Sherman, Directorof the Soka Education Research Centre on GlobalCitizenship (SERC-GC) at the University of GuelphHumber, Canada, gave a special lecture at Soka
University. Dr. Sherman is teaching a course thissemester on global citizenship as a visiting lecturer
in the university’s faculty of education.
In his lecture, Sherman introduced theobjectives and activities of SERC-GC, as well as its
research accomplishments to date. SERC-GC willcelebrate the sixth anniversary of its establishment
this November. He also shared his latest publishedresearch from the Centre, co-authored with Professor
Olivia Boukydis of the same university. In theiranalysis of contemporary scholarly research on
global citizenship, Sherman and Boukydis exploredhow Daisaku Ikeda's Thoughts on Education for
Global Citizenship differs from academia’s
understandings of global citizenship, and howIkeda’s views on global citizenship might bepositioned in the scholarly literature.
Sherman pointed out that the terms“difference,” “understanding” and “respect” appear
frequently in academic literature on global
citizenship that does not cite Ikeda, while the terms"wisdom,” “courage” and “compassion" are often
used in the literature that does cite Ikeda. He thenshared his finding that the term “interconnected” wasthe only term found in the study that was used withhigh frequency in both the literature that cites Ikeda
and that does not cite Ikeda. He remarked that
“interconnected” (and its synonyms “interrelated”
and “interdependent”) are perhaps the most widely
recognized terms associated with global citizenshipand global citizenship education.

Dr. Sherman closed the special lecture bystating that he would like to continue cultivating
students as global citizens who “embrace alterity, areopen-minded and respectful of diverse values andbeliefs, and appreciate the interrelatedness of local
and global shared similarities and differences.” Healso expressed his resolve in continuing to educate
others of the critical features of global citizenshipeducation as viewed by Ikeda.

Daisaku Ikeda on Education
The Dawn of a Century of Humanistic Education(January 1, 2000)

This Issue’s Selected Writing
Sharma, N. (2023). Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (18711944). In Lang-Wojtasik, G. and Bastian, T. (Eds.).
Friedenshoffnung Weltbürgertum. Fünfzig Porträts[Hope for Peace, Global Citizenship. Fifty portraits](pp. 109-115). Ulm: Klemm+Oelschläger. ISBN
978-3-86281-184-7

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We welcome comments regarding this Report
as well as suggestions on specific material
that it should feature in future issues. Contact:
Ikeda Research Institute for Soka Education(IRISE) of Soka University (IRISEaccess@soka.ac.jp)
This Report is issued on a bimonthly basis,
with the next release tentatively scheduled forJanuary 18, 2024.