Debbie Goss (Phd candidate in Composition and Applied Linguistics) was recently awarded a prestigious two-year dissertation fellowship from the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue.
Goss' dissertation, "Global Citizenship Writing Pedagogies: Daisaku Ikeda/Soka Education Perspectives," focuses on the Ikeda/ska perspective of global citizenship writing pedagogies, which explores the ideas of reformist educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, Josei Toda, and Daisaku Ikeda, in particular. The project explores how Ikeda's global citizenship ethos can be enacted in the writing classroom at a time when educational reform is arguably the most urgent imperative of our time. Ikeda places top priority on Englishand all languageteaching and learning because it is through language that students learn and grow from the Other to create value.
Goss teaches language and writing to richly diverse multilingual students at Saddleback Community College, Coastline Community College, and Soka University of America, which was founded by Daisaku Ikeda.
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