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Students, parents, and educators at all levels are increasingly frustrated, demoralized, burned out, and discontented with education and schooling today. At no previous time has it been more necessary to revitalize hope in the promise of education or to reestablish joy in teaching and learning than the current moment. In this timely and inspirational volume, authors from diverse disciplines consider and affirm the many places across curriculum and context where hope and joy are or can be strong and vibrant. Drawing on the life-affirming ideals of renowned education philosopher and school founder Daisaku Ikeda, Hope and Joy in Education will reenergize educational research, theory, and practice. Featuring contributions from such luminaries as Theodorea Berry, Cynthia Dillard, Walter Gershon, Francyne Huckaby, Johnny Lupinacci, and Anita Patterson, this book reminds readers that the classroom is still a magical space, brimming with the brilliant and creative energy of young people.
Book Features:
- Illustrates the power of Daisaku Ikeda’s ideas to confront the challenging societal contexts and conditions that schools and educators face day in and day out.
- Shares narratives that employ critical and antiracist lenses to examine the authors’ own activist work with different populations across multiple contexts.
- Considers Daisaku Ikeda’s contributions relative to established and emerging trends in education, including the Deweyan tradition, ecojustice education, critical race feminism, and others.
- Provides cross-cultural examples and insights bolstering the current resurgence of humanistic, qualitative aspects of teaching and learning.
- Shows how the essential qualities of hope and joy fortify fields and themes that have been squeezed out by political agendas and standardized testing.
Contents (Tentative)
Foreword Cynthia Dillard
Preface/Acknowledgments
Introduction: Daisaku Ikeda, and Hope and Joy in Education
Jason Goulah
PART I: CURRICULUM AND TEACHING FOR HOPE AND JOY
1. Joy as Sustenance: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda and the Lotus Sutra to Nourish Vocation
Isabel Nuñez
2. Determining to be Hopeful in Hopeless Times
Nozomi Inukai and Michio Okamura
3. “Hope is a Decision”: Pedagogical Acts Towards the Collective Commitment to Remake the World
Christopher Hall, Patricia Krueger-Henney, Nina Kunimoto, and Zeena Zakharia
4. A Fundamental Force at the Edge of the Formation of Society
M. Francyne Huckaby
5. Building a Change-focused Community with Practitioners as a Source of Hope
Allison Mattheis
6. Imparting Hope and Inspiring Joy: Practicing Value-Creative Dialogue in Educational Leadership
Melissa Bradford
PART II: HOPE AND JOY IN AESTHETIC AND EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE
7. Restoring Hope for the Humanities: Daisaku Ikeda, Intercultural Study, and College Classroom Experience
Anita Patterson
8. Finding Hope and Joy in Curriculum Theory through Critical Race Feminism
Theodora Regina Berry
9. Finding Hope and Joy through Daisaku Ikeda: The Rehabilitation of a Doctoral Candidate
Jayna McQueen Baker
10. Social Emotional Learning and Value-Creating Education: Synergistic Possibilities for Cultivating Hope and Joy in Higher Education
Deborah Donahue-Keegan
11. The Poetic Mind: The Key to Creating Hope and Joy in Education
Ritsuko Rita
12. Human Rights Education as a Resource for Self and Collective Transformation
Elora Chowdhury
PART III: SEEKING INNER JOY AND OUTER HOPE
13. Hope, Joy, and the Greater Self at the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning and Dialogue
Mitch Bogen
14. Value Creation and the Revitalization of Dependency as a Core Goal of Ecocritical Education
Johnny Lupinacci
15. Dancing with Hope
Walter Gershon
16. A Curriculum of Becoming
D. Joe Ohlinger
17. Hope in Remembrance of a Life Well Lived
Sandra Vanderbilt
18. Finding Hope and Joy in Life and Death: Daisaku Ikeda’s Philosophy of Ningen Kyōiku (Human Edu cation)
Jason Goulah
Conclusion: Hope and Joy, Trust and Faith, and Poison as Medicine
Isabel Nuñez
About the Contributors
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