52.063 - The Dewey–Soka Heritage: Dialogue, Reconstruction, and Value-Creative Democracy as Justice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Three internationally renowned Dewey scholars and two prominent Soka education scholars examine the current and potential role of Dewey’s educational thought to effect justice in the 21st century. As educational philosophy increasingly disappears from teacher preparation and practice in the U.S., this panel takes the heritage of the Dewey-Soka dialogue (Ikeda, Garrison & Hickman, 2014) as both an optic and method of inquiry to recover the power of Dewey’s ideas for social reconstruction. Panelists conclude the heritage of the Dewey-Soka dialogue—and their own dialogic inquiry—reveals that, in the 21st century, processes of social reconstruction for creative democracy as justice must be dialogic, translingual and transcultural.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Dewey Studies

Chair

• Jason Goulah, DePaul University

Papers

• Cultivating Chrysanthemums: Dewey, Makiguchi, Ikeda, and Dialogue as Growth - Jason Goulah, DePaul University

• A Humanism for Global Dialogue: Deweyan–Buddhist Perspectives on Co-Creating Meaning and Value Across Differences - Jim Garrison, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• Two Philosophies of Education in Dialogue: Daisaku Ikeda and John Dewey - Larry A. Hickman, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

• Dewey and the Soka Education Tradition on Value Creation: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue - Gonzalo Obelleiro, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussant

• Nel Noddings, Stanford University