Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum and Context

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.

“This is a necessary text at a necessary time if we are to revitalize hope in the promise of education.”
—From the Foreword by Cynthia B. Dillard, University of Georgia

“A beacon of light toward desirable collective futurities in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and vulnerability.”
—Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

“These essays are just what we need in these turbulent, uncertain times: a thoughtful focus on hope and joy as the path to educating for a more just, equitable, relational, and peaceful state of being.”
—Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Miami University

“This insightful book urges educators to center hope and joy in our work—not by turning away from the despair of the moment, but by fostering dialogue, seeking connection, and always remembering that the true aim of education for teachers and students alike is to become more fully human.”
—Gregory Michie, Chicago public school teacher

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Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum and Context

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.

“This is a necessary text at a necessary time if we are to revitalize hope in the promise of education.”
—From the Foreword by Cynthia B. Dillard, University of Georgia

“A beacon of light toward desirable collective futurities in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and vulnerability.”
—Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

“These essays are just what we need in these turbulent, uncertain times: a thoughtful focus on hope and joy as the path to educating for a more just, equitable, relational, and peaceful state of being.”
—Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Miami University

“This insightful book urges educators to center hope and joy in our work—not by turning away from the despair of the moment, but by fostering dialogue, seeking connection, and always remembering that the true aim of education for teachers and students alike is to become more fully human.”
—Gregory Michie, Chicago public school teacher

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Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum and Context

Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum and Context

Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum and Context

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Overview

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.

“This is a necessary text at a necessary time if we are to revitalize hope in the promise of education.”
—From the Foreword by Cynthia B. Dillard, University of Georgia

“A beacon of light toward desirable collective futurities in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and vulnerability.”
—Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

“These essays are just what we need in these turbulent, uncertain times: a thoughtful focus on hope and joy as the path to educating for a more just, equitable, relational, and peaceful state of being.”
—Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Miami University

“This insightful book urges educators to center hope and joy in our work—not by turning away from the despair of the moment, but by fostering dialogue, seeking connection, and always remembering that the true aim of education for teachers and students alike is to become more fully human.”
—Gregory Michie, Chicago public school teacher


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807779446
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 04/16/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 983 KB

About the Author

Isabel Nuñez is professor of educational studies and director of the School of Education at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Jason Goulah is professor of bilingual-bicultural education and director of the Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education at DePaul University in Chicago.

Table of Contents

Contents (Tentative)

ForewordCynthia 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
Theodorea 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 Education)
Jason Goulah

Conclusion: Hope and Joy, Trust and Faith, and Poison as Medicine
Isabel Nuñez

About the Contributors

Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“To have this outstandingly beautiful collection of authors help us to build bridges between Ikeda’s powerful ideas and humanizing spirit and the pressing educational and social issues of our time provides us a precious gift of learning, living, and legend worthy of our time and being.”
—From the Foreword by Cynthia B. Dillard, University of Georgia, Athens, GA and Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana


“In this exhilarating volume, Isabel Nuñez, Jason Goulah, and a group of courageous and invigorating thinkers-scholars-peacemakers-activists bring a beacon of light with wisdom, courage, hope, joy, and love to heal the soul of humanity toward desirable collective futurities in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and vulnerability.”
Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University


“This collection of essays is wonderful and timely. Inspired by the philosophy of Daisaku Ikeda, they are just what we need in these times of turbulent transitions and great uncertainty: a deep sigh of release and a thoughtful focus on hope and joy as the path, the purpose, and the process of educating for a more just, equitable, relational, and peaceful state of being.”
Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Miami University


“How do we go on hoping after witnessing trauma? Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum and Context grapples with that question, one of special urgency in our post–George Floyd moment. Having witnessed the worst of humanity, Daisaku Ikeda reminds us that the urgency of the moment requires us to hope, since to hope is to live. If life is a story and we are the author of that story, then we must decide how to live and write that story. Only then can we think of hope as a decision, a revolutionary act of love, where courage, conviction, and joy are found intermingling in a space of métissage.”
Awad Ibrahim, professor of education, University of Ottawa


“For too long, the most strident voices in education spaces have asked the wrong questions, concerned more with what is measurable than what is meaningful. This timely and insightful book serves as a vital course correction, urging educators to center hope and joy in our work—not by turning away from the despair of the moment, but by fostering dialogue, seeking connection, and always remembering that the true aim of education for teachers and students alike is to become more fully human.”
Gregory Michie, Chicago public school teacher and author of Holler If You Hear Me

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