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Daisaku Ikeda; Dialogic Inquiry; Dialogue; Soka Studies in Education; Teacher Collaboration; Value-creative Dialogue
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Friends In The Orchid Room: An Inquiry Into Value-Creative Dialogue, Melissa R. Bradford
Friends In The Orchid Room: An Inquiry Into Value-Creative Dialogue, Melissa R. Bradford
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
This study asked, what value is created by two education practitioner-scholars who engage in a years-long sustained dialogue about value-creating, or Soka, education inspired by Daisaku Ikeda’s ethos of value-creative dialogue? The purpose of this study was to analyze Ikeda’s philosophical perspectives and practice of value-creative dialogue and to use this analysis as a framework for analyzing the author’s own inner transformation and value creation through dialogue with her friend and interlocutor for the study. The study empirically evaluated the content of Ikeda’s dialogues as the theme of dialogue emerged and evolved over time in Ikeda’s discourse by using thematic …