Ikeda/Soka Studies in Education

This series features original scholarship in the international field of Ikeda/Soka Studies in Education. This field engages with and takes its name from renowned thought leader Daisaku Ikeda (b. 1928) and his many contributions to education as well as from the heritage of ideas and ideals from Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871 – 1944) and Josei Toda (1900 – 1958) that he has embraced, developed, and spread globally under the broad banner of "sōka," a Japanese neologism meaning "value creation" that is often also rendered into 2 English as the loan word Soka. This rapidly expanding field has emerged as an important foundation for educational research, theory, and practice across the lifespan, and as a means of ameliorating increasingly complex and intersecting anxieties and crises in education at local and global levels. The philosophies and practices of Ikeda, Toda, and Makiguchi shape the founding mission of multiple schools and universities around the world; inform practices and perspectives of thousands of educators and school leaders in multicultural, multiracial, and multilingual contexts; and have inspired the development of university research centers, curricular initiatives, and conferences across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
This series is intended for scholars, teacher educators, educational researchers, and pre- and in-service educators and leaders in international contexts. It features original scholarship on and inspired by the educational perspectives and practices of Ikeda, Toda, and Makiguchi, such as human education (ningen kyōiku); value-creating approaches to education, society, and power; education and happiness; global citizenship education; communities studies; human geography; human rights, justice, and peace education; the poetic heart and mind of education; inner transformation and "human revolution"; creative dialogue; sustainability, interdependence and creative coexistence; youth empowerment; life and death; civil society and people movements; intersections of religion/Buddhism and education; deductive reasoning; language and literacies education; assessment and aptitudes; academic achievement; knowledge and wisdom; literary selfhood in education; and profound student-teacher relationships for social self-actualization and meaningful and contributive living; among others.