Daisaku Ikeda Language And Education

This book is a compilation of essays written by various scholars about the work of Daisaku Ikeda in regards to language and education. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which discusses Ikeda's work in creating secular schools. The second part discusses his work in creating dialogue and creating value-based education. The third part discusses Ikeda's work in creating global citizenship.

Daisaku Ikeda (b. 1928) is an international Buddhist leader, peacebuilder, prolific author, and the founder of the secular Soka kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools, women's college and universities in seven countries across Asia and the Americas. He has emerged as an important educational philosopher and practitioner whose perspectives on dialogue, value-creation (soka), global citizenship, and the deep inner transformation he calls human revolution have informed the curriculum and instruction of thousands of teachers not only at the Soka schools, but also at numerous non-Soka schools and universities around the world. This volume brings together, for the first time in English, international scholars' empirical and theoretical analyses of Ikeda's contributions to language and education in a global context. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.