Soka Education: Books

Ikeda, Daisaku. Soka Education: For the Happiness of the Individual. Santa Monica: Middleway Press, 2010.

Ikeda, Daisaku. Discussions on Youth: For the Leaders of the Future. Santa Monica: World Tribune, 2010.

Ikeda, Daisaku. To the Youthful Pioneers of Soka : Lectures, Essays and Poems on Value-Creating Education. New Delhi: Eternal Ganges, 2006.

Ikeda, Daisaku. One by One: The World is Yours to Change. Sonoma, CA: Dunhill Publishing, 2004.

Makiguchi, Tsunesaburō. A Geography of Human Life. San Francisco: Caddo Gap Press, 2002.

Ikeda, Daisaku. Soka Education: A Buddhist Vision for Teachers, Students, and Parents. Santa Monica, CA: Middleway Press, 2001.

Ikeda, Daisaku. A New Humanism : The University Addresses of Daisaku Ikeda. New York: Weatherhill, 1996.

Translation of "Sōka kyōikugaku taikei" by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
Makiguchi, Tsunesaburō. Education for Creative Living: Ideas and Proposals of Tsunesaburō Makiguchi. Edited by Dayle M. Bethel. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1989.

Toda, Josei. Suirishiki Shido Sanjutsu [A Deductive Guide to Arithmetic]. Vol. 9 of Toda Josei Zenshu [Collection of Josei Toda]. Tokyo: Wakosha, Showa, 1966.

Toda's "A Deductive Guide to Arithmetic" is, as Makiguchi stated in the foreword, an example of the value-creating educational theory put into practice.

Goulah, Jason. “The Presence and Role of Dialogue in Soka Education.” In Peacebuilding through Dialogue: Education, Human Transformation, and Conflict Resolution, edited by Peter N. Stearns, 55-70. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press, 2018.

Ikegami, Kiiko, and Susan Grieshaber. “Re-Conceptualising Quality Early Childhood Education: What Does Soka Education Have to Offer?” In Contemporary Issues and Challenge in Early Childhood Education in the Asia-Pacific Region, edited by Minyi Li, Jillian Fox, and Susan Grieshaber, 241–58. New Frontiers of Educational Research. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017.

Storch, Tanya. “Soka University of America.” In Buddhist-Based Universities in the United States: Searching for a New Model in Higher Education, 63-79. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015.

Goulah, Jason and Andrew Gebert, eds. Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944): Educational Philosophy in Context. London : Routledge, 2014.

Goulah, Jason, ed. Daisaku Ikeda, Language and Education. London: Routledge, 2014.

Goulah, Jason. “Environmental Displacement, English Learners, Identity and Value Creation: Considering Daisaku Ikeda in the East-West Ecology of Education.” In Transformative Eco-Education for Human and Planetary Survival, edited by Jing Lin and Rebecca Oxford, 41-58. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2012.

Goulah, Jason. “Dialogic Resistance in Education: Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, Daisaku Ikeda and Transformative Language Learning.“ In Critical Essays on Resistance in Education, edited by David M. Moss and Terry A. Osborn, 83-104. New York: Peter Lang, 2010.

Sharma, Namrata. Makiguchi and Gandhi : Their Educational Relevance for the 21st Century. Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2008.

Gebert, Andrew and Monte Joffee. “Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Value Creation.” Chap. 4 in Ethical Visions of Education: Philosophies in Practice, edited by David T. Hansen. New York: Teachers College Press, 2007.

Edward Carter Sr., Lawrence. “Global Ethical Leadership and Higher Education: ‘Being the Change You Wish to See.’” Chap. 11 in For the Common Good: the Ethics of Leadership in the 21st Century, edited by John C. Knapp. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2007.

Joffee, Monte. “Value-creating Education: A Nichiren Buddhist Perspective.” Chap. 25 in Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions, edited by Karen-Marie Yust, Aostre N. Johnson, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and Eugene C. Roehlkepartain. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.

Noddings, Nel. Educating Citizens for Global Awareness. Developed in association with the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century. New York: Teachers College Press, 2005.

Forward written by Daisaku Ikeda

Goulah, Jason. “From Abstraction and Militarization of Language Education to Society for Language Education: Lessons from Daisaku Ikeda and Tsunesaburo Makiguchi.” Chap. 9 in Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools, edited by Kenneth J. Saltman and David A. Gabbard. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Miller, George David. Peace, Value, and Wisdom: The Educational Philosophy of Daisaku Ikeda. Daisaku Ikeda Studies, vol. 122. New York: Rodopi, 2002.

Bethel, Dayle. “The Legacy of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi: Value Creating Education and Global Citizenship.” Chap. 2 in Global Citizens: the Soka Gakkai Buddhist Movement in the World, edited by David W. Machacek and Bryan R. Wilson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Takeuchi, Keiichi. “Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, 1871-1944.” In Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies: Volume 20, edited by Patrick H. Armstrong and Geoffrey J. Martin, 43-56. New York: Continuum, 2000.

Sharma, Namrata. Value Creators in Education: Japanese Educator Makiguchi & Mahatma Gandhi and Their Relevance for the Indian Education. New Delhi: Regency Publications, 1999.

Bethel, Dayle M. Makiguchi the Value Creator, Revolutionary Japanese Educator and Founder of Soka Gakkai. New York: Weatherhill, 1973.