Hope and Joy in Education

Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum and Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8077-6510-4
Verlag: Teachers College Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 366 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nuñez, Isabel

Goulah, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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 Kyoiku (Human Education) - Jason Goulah
- Conclusion: Hope and Joy, Trust and Faith, and Poison as Medicine - Isabel Nuñez
- About the Contributors
- Index