Daisaku Ikeda, Language and Education

This edited volume comprises empirical and theoretical research on Daisaku Ikeda’s philosophy and practice of language and education. It is the first such book on Ikeda, who has emerged as an important figure in international education in the U.S., Japan, Brazil, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, and China.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.

Daisaku Ikeda (b. 1928) is an international Buddhist leader, peacebuilder, prolific author, and the founder of the secular Soka kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools, women’s college and universities in seven countries across Asia and the Americas. He has emerged as an important educational philosopher and practitioner whose perspectives on dialogue, value-creation (soka), global citizenship, and the deep inner transformation he calls "human revolution" have informed the curriculum and instruction of thousands of teachers not only at the Soka schools, but also at numerous non-Soka schools and universities around the world.

This volume brings together, for the first time in English, international scholars’ empirical and theoretical analyses of Ikeda’s contributions to language and education in a global context. This book was awarded the Critics Choice Book Award by the American Educational Studies Association in 2015.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.