Value-Creating Approaches to Teacher Education: Duoethnographic Exploration as Teacher Educators

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Abstract

In this paper, we explored the impact of our schooling experiences on our current identities and practices. We come from the shared lived experience of being graduates of the Soka school system, founded by Japanese educator and Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda. Through duoethnography and value-creating inquiry, we examined our journey as students in Soka schools, as well as our current identities and practices as teacher educators. Data sources included notes, transcriptions of video conferences, and online documents where we shared and exchanged ideas. Thematic analysis of data revealed key experiences and practices in the two realms of culture and academics. Utilizing dialogue as an explicit process, we synthesized our experiences, practices, and scholarship in value-creating approaches to education.

Authors

• Nozomi Inukai, DePaul University

• Julie Nagashima, North Central College