The Dewey-Soka Heritage and the Future of Education - Paperback

by Jason Goulah (Other), Awad Ibrahim (Other), Jason Goulah (Editor)

This book examines the contemporary relevance of the East-West ecology of thought and practice present in and inspired by the educational perspectives of American philosopher John Dewey (1859-1952) and the Japanese progenitors of sōka, or "value-creating," approaches to life and education and the Soka organizations and institutions they advanced embodying and memorializing these in name and ethos: Makiguchi Tsunesaburō (1871-1944), Toda Jōsei (1900-1958), and Ikeda Daisaku (1928-2023).

Author Biography

Jason Goulah is professor of bilingual-bicultural education and director of the Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education at DePaul University in Chicago.

Gonzalo Obelleiro is assistant professor of curriculum studies at DePaul University in Chicago

Jim Garrison is a professor emeritus of philosophy of education at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.