Hope and Joy in Curriculum Studies: Engaging With Daisaku Ikeda's Thought

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Six scholars from diverse geographies and disciplines examine the many places across curricula where hope and joy are and can be strong and vibrant. Inspired by and drawing on the thought of Daisaku Ikeda, these scholars reinvigorate hope and joy as curriculum. This panel marks a new dialogue with, as much as about, Ikeda’s many contributions. Panelists engage his thought relative to reanimating hope and joy in curriculum studies, as well as in their own professional lives and in the lives of their students and communities. At the same time, they advance Ikeda studies as a necessary and new—uniquely Eastern and quintessentially universal—framework for addressing the most pressing issues facing society and education today.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 3: Theories, Methodologies, and Philosophies of Curriculum Studies

Chair

• Jason Goulah, DePaul University

Papers

• Daisaku Ikeda and Hope and Joy in Education - Jason Goulah, DePaul University

• Joy as Sustenance: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda and the Lotus Sutra to Nourish Vocation - Isabel Nunez, Purdue University Fort Wayne

• Determining to Be Hopeful in Hopeless Times - Nozomi Inukai, DePaul University

• A Fundamental Force at the Edge of the Formation of Society - Francyne Huckaby, Texas Christian University

• Value Creation and the Revitalization of Dependency as a Core Goal of Eco-Critical Education - John J. Lupinacci, Washington State University

• A Curriculum of Becoming - D. Joe Ohlinger, Purdue University - Fort Wayne