An academic book containing papers by two researchers of IRISE has been published

"The Dewey-Soka Heritage and the Future of Education" has recently been published by Peter Lang, a Swiss publishing company. The book includes papers by two researchers from IRISE: Deputy Director Prof. Takao Ito and Prof. Andrew Gebert.

Peter Lang is a Swiss academic publisher founded in 1970, specializing in the humanities and social sciences. The company publishes a large number of books and journals annually, and is now a very prominent global publisher with offices in Europe, the U.S., and India.

The book also includes papers by former presidents of the John Dewey Society, Prof. Jim Garrison and Prof. Emeritus Larry Hickman, who conducted a three-way dialogue with Soka University founder Mr. Daisaku Ikeda, as well as other researchers from the USA and Spain who are researching Ikeda's philosophy. This book has been published by Prof. Jason Goulah, the Director of the Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education at DePaul University, an exchange partner of Soka University.

The Contents of the book are as follows:
The Dewey-Soka Heritage and the Future of Education 
Jason Goulah, Gonzalo Obelleiro, and Jim Garrison

PROLOGUE
Makiguchi Tsunesaburo and John Dewey
Takao Ito

PART I: Spirituality, Religion, and Education
　Uncommon Faiths: John Dewey and Makiguchi Tsunesaburo's Recasting of "Religion"
     Andrew Gebert
　Buddhist Humanism and Spiritual Democracy
     Steven C. Rockefeller
   Makiguchi, Ikeda, and Dewey: Geography as a Response to Spiritual Nihilism
     Jim Garrison
　The Dharma of Lovingkindness and Compassion: Adding Women's Voices to the Dewey-Soka Conversation 
      Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon
　Teacher Selfhood and the Education of the Global Citizen
      Isabel Nuñez

PART II: Global Citizenship, Hope, and the Democratic Life
　Ikeda Daisaku and African American Pragmatism: Race, Identity, Justice, and Cosmopolitan Becoming in the Dewey-Soka Heritage
     Jason Goulah
　A Growing Crisis in Education (and Some Bright Spots)
      Larry A. Hickman
　Creating Value, Creative Democracy: Re-envisioning Civic Learning and Life in Dark Times Ruthanne Kurth-Schai
　The Dewey-Soka Heritage: An East-West Convergence of Philosophies of Hope
      Ming Fang He
　Makiguchi and Dewey on Truth, Knowledge, and Value
     Gonzalo Obelleiro

PART III: Praxis, Curriculum, and the Dewey-Soka Heritage
　Assessment for Growth and Value Creation in the Dewey-Soka Heritage
     Nozomi Inukai and Alexandra I. Cruz
　Embracing the Dewey-Soka Heritage in Education Research: Relational, Dialogical, and Narrative Ways of Knowing and Being 
     Julie Nagashima and Melissa Riley Bradford
　The Dewey-Soka Heritage as a Lens for the American Experience
     C. Gregg Jorgensen
　Striving to Create Curriculum by Embodying the Educational Spirit of John Dewey and the Founders of the Soka Heritage 
      William H. Schubert
About the Contributors
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