Description
Book SynopsisIn 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 education philosopher Daisaku Ikeda, this book will reenergize educational research, theory, and practice.
Trade Review2022 Society of Professors of Education (SPE) Outstanding Book Award.
Table of Contents
- 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 Kyōiku (Human Education) - Jason Goulah
- Conclusion: Hope and Joy, Trust and Faith, and Poison as Medicine - Isabel Nuñez
- About the Contributors
- Index
