Master of Education - Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship

Program Description

The program in Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship offers a comprehensive and in-depth examination of the educational perspectives and practices of Soka educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, Josei Toda, and Daisaku Ikeda. The first degree program of its kind anywhere in the world, it engages students in understanding and applying value-creating education for global citizenship in theory, research, policy, and practice in local and global contexts. Students will consider key educational concepts in the Soka heritage, including human geography, communities studies, deductive approaches, value and value creation, wisdom and knowledge, human education, society for education, peace and dialogue, among others. The foundation of the program rests on the sociopolitical and sociocultural implications of value-creating education for global citizenship in local contexts.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• Assess instructional practices that blend a focus on both cognition (i.e., the accretion of knowledge) and wisdom (i.e., application of that knowledge in meaningful and contributive living for oneself and others).
• Design practices that promote interdependent teacher-student relationships for mutual growth and development.
• Analyze and practice dialogic engagement, reflective and relational creativity and criticality, and meaning making.
• Apply value-creating education for global citizenship in local contexts.