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8Th Annual Soka Education Conference 2012 This file has been cleaned of potential threats. If you confirm that the file is coming from a trusted source, you can send the following SHA-256 hash value to your admin for the original file. dfa307d574804aa45ce57abc2388db27fab31dbfb9d62f273a31ae5c0260c986 To view the reconstructed contents, please SCROLL DOWN to next page. 8TH ANNUAL SOKA EDUCATION CONFERENCE 2012 SOKA UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ALISO VIEJO, CALIFORNIA FEBRUARY 18TH & 19TH, 2012 PAULING 216 Disclaimer: The contents of the papers included in this volume do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Soka Education Student Research Project, the members of the Soka Education Conference Committee, or Soka University of America. The papers were selected by blind submission and based on a one page proposal. Copyrights: Unless otherwise indicated, the copyrights are equally shared between the author and the SESRP and articles may be distributed with consent of either part. The Soka Education Student Research Project (SESRP) holds the rights of the title ―Soka Education and Democracy.‖ For permission to copy a part of or the entire volume with the use of the title, SESRP must have given approval. The Soka Education Student Research Project is an autonomous organization at Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, California. Soka University of America Soka Education Student Research Project 1 University Drive Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 Office: Student Affairs #316 www.sesrp.org [email protected] Soka Education Conference 2012 Program (Pauling 216) Saturday February 18th, 2012 Time Event Speaker 9:00-9:30 Please enjoy Coffee, Bagels, and Fruits Continental Breakfast outside 9:30 Dr. Danny Habuki Opening Words (President of SUA) 9:45 Introduction of Soka Education Student Research SESRP Members Project 9:50 Critical Play: A Tool for Communal Inquiry and Menelik Tafari Agency (c/o 2012) 10:20 Exploring the Validity of Videogames as a Source Aaron Freedman and Tool for Value Creation (c/o 2012) 10:50 Exploring the Creation of Soka and Steiner Kaz Iguchi Education: A Comparative Study of Tsunesaburo Guest Presenter from Soka University Makiguchi and Rudolph Steiner 11:20 Lunch Please enjoy lunch in the cafeteria 12:45 Kasia Grycuk Keynote Introduction SESRP Coordinator 12:50 Judith R. Accardi, Psy.D Keynote Speaker Executive Director of Play Mountain Place 1:50 Break Please enjoy refreshments outside 2:00 An Ecology of Human Life Yui Takishima & Nate Maynard (c/o 2012) 2:35 Ryan Hayashi, Ritsuko Rita, Takako Makiguchi Translation: Research into Community Masui, & Satomi Ueno Studies as the Integrating Focus of Instruction (c/o 2012) 3:05 Please enjoy refreshments outside Break 3:20 Dr. Dana Garuprasad (Farm School, Aliso Viejo) Panel: From Theory to Praxis Dr. Shivani Burrows-Goodwill (Waldorf School, San Diego) Cornelia Kull (Anneliese School, Laguna Beach) 4:50 Closing Words Dr. James Spady Sunday February 19th, 2012 Time Event Speaker TBA All Alumni, Students, Keynote, Alumni Breakfast Presenters 12:30 Dawn Minette Welcome Back (c/o 2006) 12:45 The Compatible and Complimentary Principles and Koichi Yoshikawa Functions of Positive Psychology and Soka (c/o 2005) Education: Empirical Measures of Happiness and Global Ethos 1:20 José Ramon Montero Dr. Tomas Crowder-Taraborelli Special Interest Workshops Simone Barclay (c/o 2012) Menelik Tafari (c/o 2012) 2:10 The Use of Education: Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Alessandra Aristimuño Makiguchi (c/o 2013) 2:45 Please enjoy refreshments outside Break 3:00 Simon Hoffding (c/o 2008 ) Soka Education in the Light of Virtue Ethics and (& Gonzalo Obelleiro c/o 2005) Phenomenology 3:50: Jihii Jolly From George Orwell to Media Literacy: Soka (c/o 2011) Education for Informed Media Consumers 4:25 Closing Words TBA Table of Contents Introductory Letter SESRP Conference 1 Committee Biographies Conference Personnel 2 Critical Play: A Tool for Communal Inquiry and Agency Menelik Tafari 7 Exploring the Validity of Videogames as a Source and Tool for Aaron Freedman 26 Value Creation By Ryan Hayashi, Makiguchi Translation: Research into Community Studies as Takako Masui, Ritsuko 37 the Integrating Focus of Instruction Rita, and Satomi Ueno An Ecology of Human Life Nathaniel Maynard and 55 Yui Takishima Exploring the Creation of Soka and Steiner Education: 65 A Comparative Study of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Rudolf Kazuhiro Iguchi Steiner The Compatible and Complimentary Principles and Functions 74 of Positive Psychology and Soka Education: Empirical Koichi Yoshikawa Measures of Happiness and a Global Ethos The Purpose of Education: Montaigne, Makiguchi, Nietzche Alessandra Aristimuno 88 Analyzing the Development of Makiguchi‘s Value-Creating Nozomi Inukai Education: It‘s Relation to Nichiren Buddhism 95 From George Orwell to Media Literacy: Jihii Jolly 104 Soka Education for Informed Media Consumers Dear Guests, Faculty, Staff, and Students of Soka University of America (SUA), Our eighth annual Soka Education Conference will take place on February 18th and 19th, 2012. For a second year running the Soka Education Student Research Project (SESRP) has decided to hold this year‘s conference without a theme to allow students the creative freedom to explore many different facets of value-creation education. From this plethora of various ideas, we were able to draw on several important themes related to Soka Education. The conference will present the work of students and scholars both within and outside of the SUA community. Mr. Menelik Tafari and Mr. Aaron Freedman look at the subject of experiential education focusing on how tools such as video games and community play can create valuable learning. Mr. Ryan Hayashi, Ms. Ritsuko Rita, Ms. Takako Masui, and Ms. Satomi Ueno present us with their own analysis and translation of a chapter of Makiguchi‘s ―Community Studies.‖ Ms. Yui Takishima and Mr. Nathaniel Maynard will explore the relationship between Soka Education and environmental education. Mr. Kaz Iguchi will present us with a comparative pedagogical study of Tsunesburo Makiguchi and Rudolf Steiner, both of whom championed the cause of humanistic education in their respective societies during WWII. Mr.Koichi Yoshikawa has looked at the complimentary principles and functions of positive psychology and Soka Education, focusing on the ideas of happiness and Global Ethos. Ms. Alessandra Aristimuno writes about the works of Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Makiguchi and the purpose of education from the view point of these three great thinkers. Mr. Gonzalo Obelleiro and Mr. Simon Hoffding explore Soka Education in the light of Virtue Ethics and Phenomenology and Ms. Jihii Jolly has chosen to focus on Media Literacy and the role of Soka Education in encouraging informed media consumerism. This year we will also hold a panel with three leading educators: Dana Garuprasad from the farm school in Aliso Viejo, Dr.Shivangi Burrows-Goodwill from the Waldorf School in San Diego, and Cornelia Kull, an SUA alumni currently working at the Anneliese School in Laguna Beach. These local educators will form a panel to discuss the various practices of humanistic education within their institutions. Our workshops and special interests groups will also be facilitated by various SUA students, faculty, and outside educators, with the goal of providing smaller groups to discuss more specific aspects of Soka education. This year we are honored to welcome keynote speaker Judith R. Accardi, who for over 25 years has been a mentor, teacher, Assistant Director, Co-Director, and the Program Director in both the preschool and elementary school programs of Play Mountain Place in Los Angeles. Since 1999, Mrs. Accardi has been the Executive Director and overall School Director of the school. In all of these roles, she has led many workshops and seminars in Humanistic Education, Peaceful Parenting Support and Education, Communication Skills, and Non-Authoritarian Conflict Resolution. She is also a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice. We feel Mrs. Accardi‘s in-depth experience in the educational arena will be a great source of learning for students and faculty alike and further our discussion and understanding of Soka Education within the broader context of humanistic education. We sincerely hope that this conference will inspire SUA to seek connections between Makiguchi‘s pedagogy and the ideas emanating from local educators to form a greater network of like- minded pedagogists. We also hope that while furthering our research into the ever evolving meanings of Soka Education, we will also be able to explore its applicability in a variety of different fields. It is our intention that the conference will open SUA to the local community and allow the participants to engage in dialogue with the representatives from the alternative schools in our most immediate environment. In doing so, the conference will serve as an important opportunity to understand and renew SUA‘s mission among students and faculty for the purpose of fostering capable people committed to living contributive lives. Thank you for all of your contributions! Sincerely, Soka Education Student Research Project 1 Menelik Tafari, a current senior at Soka University of America, has spent the last eight years working with various community action programs, organizations, and networks to facilitate intercultural encounters and the civic participation of youth. His research stands at the point where experiential, civic, interpersonal and intercultural education intersect with play theory and game studies. He characterizes his work
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