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Reverence & Teaching

[Posted by M. Bogen, 12-11-14] It's a pretty fair bet that very few people pursue a career in teaching because they want to administer high-stakes standardized tests. Ironically, though, such tests are the dominant reality today in public school teaching and learning. It's more likely that people go into teaching because of love — of subject matter, of young people and their potential, and for the process of learning itself.

A crucial dimension of love, or corollary to love, in educational settings is reverence, a topic that scholars A.G. Rud...

Ed Fellows Program Now Accepting Applications

For Interested Doctoral Candidates

We are pleased to announce that from December 1, 2014, to March 1, 2015, we will again be accepting applications for our Education Fellows program. To learn more about the program and application instructions, please click the link below. The Education Fellows Program was established by the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue in 2007. The program aims to advance research and scholarship on Soka Education, an emerging field of study in humanistic...

Living As Learning at Teachers College

Professors Jim Garrison and Larry Hickman introduced their new dialogue book, coauthored with Daisaku Ikeda, at Teachers College, Columbia University on November 15, 2014. Living As Learning: John Dewey in the 21st Century, published by Dialogue Path Press, brings together the pragmatism of Dewey with the humanism of Soka education to look for new ways out of today’s educational stalemate. Sponsored by the Ikeda Center, the Arts & Humanities Program at Teachers College, and the Education Program at the college’s Gottesman Libraries, the book talk began with Ikeda Center...

Updated Timeline

[posted 11-17-14] Our detailed timeline of our history, originally created at the time of our 20th anniversary in 2013, has now been updated to include all our public activities for the last two years. While you are visiting this section, please take a look at some of other resources created to celebrate our anniversary, including a collection of reflections on our core convictions, contributed by many of our friends.

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Spotlight: Thinkers & Themes

The best way to get a sense for the range and depth of the ideas that inform our work is to browse our Thinkers & Themes section.

The THINKERS section is organized by name, and the content features first-person material in the form of interviews, essays, lecture transcripts, and poems. Friends of the Center included here — more than four dozen in all — range from Oscar Arias to Steven...

Interview: Donna Hicks On Dignity

Donna Hicks is an associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and author of Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict (Yale University Press, 2011). Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu says of his friend and colleague: “Donna Hicks has a gift of opening to our sight a world where those most basic of human needs—appreciation, recognition, and the feeling of inherent worth—may be attained by all.” In this interview, conducted in the fall of 2014 by the Ikeda Center’s Mitch Bogen, Dr. Hicks shares how she came...

Ikeda Forum Videos Posted

Videos of the three main presentations at this year's Ikeda Forum, "The Dignity of Life," are posted live to our site now. Andrea Bartoli of Seton Hall University describes dignity as an invitation to our shared humanity, Charlie Clements of Harvard Kennedy School explores the restoration of dignity, and Mari Fitzduff of Brandeis University considers what neuroscience can tell us about overcoming group conflict.

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2014 Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Congratulations to the 2014 Noble Peace Prize winners, Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay! They are honored for their work on behalf of children globally, especially in support of the rights of children to be educated and kept free of exploitation. Held two weeks prior to the announcement, our 2014 Ikeda Forum on dignity actually featured a video on just this topic. Called "A Path to Dignity: The Power of Human Rights Education," the video is a joint production of Human Rights Education Associates, Soka Gakkai International, and the Office of the United Nations High...

Ikeda Forum Feature Story

All the Ikeda Center’s work deals in some way with human dignity. But it wasn’t until this year’s Ikeda Forum, the eleventh annual, that we devoted an entire event to this timely—and timeless—topic. Called “Dignity of Life: The Heart of Human Rights and Peace Building,” the forum featured three leaders in the fields of international human rights and conflict resolution. On hand to share their experiences and perspectives were Andrea Bartoli of Seton Hall University, Charlie Clements of Harvard Kennedy School, and Mari Fitzduff of Brandeis University.

In his remarks, Andrea Bartoli (...

Living As Learning

The latest title from Dialogue Path Press is now available! It's called Living As Learning: John Dewey in the 21st Century, and features eminent Dewey scholars Jim Garrison and Larry Hickman in dialogue with Center founder Daisaku Ikeda. It features lots of resonances between American pragmatism and Buddhist humanism.

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