Value Creation and Second Language Research: Tsunesaburo Makiguchi’s and Daisaku Ikeda’s Ideas in a Global Context

• In Event: Roundtable Session 13

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Five international scholars theoretically and empirically explore Tsunesaburo Makiguchi’s (1871-1944) and Daisaku Ikeda’s (b. 1928) philosophy of value-creating (soka) education in second and foreign language learning in a global context. Specifically, four presenters and an experienced, internationally recognized discussant break new ground by examining value-creating education: 1.) for thinking through and responding to two competing trends intersecting language, identity, and education in the contemporary U.S.—the politicized imagining of America and increasingly ineffective critical approaches to second language education; 2.) for reconceptualizing the purpose of EFL policy in Japan; 3.) for developing identities as members of the target language communities in the context of an urban elementary-level foreign language classroom; and 4.) for developing moral cosmopolitanism in language education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Second Language Research

Chair

• Jason Goulah, DePaul University

Papers

• Makiguchi Tsunesaburo and Language, Value-Creative Composition Instruction, and the Geography of Identity in Community Studies - Jason Goulah, DePaul University

• Makiguchian Perspectives in Language Policy and Planning - Kazuma Hatano, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Research on Soka Pedagogy: Applied Science as a Method of Inquiry Into Truth, Value, and Identity - Michio Okamura, DePaul University

• A Moral Cosmopolitan Perspective on Language Education - Gonzalo Obelleiro, Teachers College, Columbia University