Abstract
This self-study presents innovative pedagogies in and through asynchronous online learning and instruction in DePaul University’s Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship program. First, we present the Eastern pedagogies that undergird this program’s content and interactional approaches and outcomes. Advanced by Japanese educators Makiguchi Tsunesaburō, Toda Jōsei, Ikeda Daisaku, these include sōka kyōikugaku/hō (value-creating pedagogy/approaches), global citizenship, and dialogue. For these pedagogues, knowledge/truth does not have inherent value; those who acquire/cognize it (i.e. students) discern and determine its value dialogically and at individual and social, local and global levels. They argue that an authentically happy life is forged by applying knowledge/truth to create value or meaning in terms of beauty (perceived through the five senses), gain (benefitting the entirety of the individual), and good (benefitting the larger community or society). Second, using these pedagogies as theoretical frames, we examine our own value-creating online teaching practices that helped our students in turn create value in their learning and applied practice. Leveraging multiple platforms, technologies, and methods, we make our courses dialogic even in an asynchronous setting. We not only emphasize dialogue in our courses, but, afforded by unique digital capacities, we as faculty also practice dialogic, collaborative planning and teaching by being in each other’s courses and participating in regular program meetings of distributed cognition and collective intelligence. These approaches facilitate mixed models of sociability within and between faculty and students across diverse international geographies and cultures, offer innovative contributions to online education, and contribute to theories of dialogue and value-creating pedagogy.
Presenters
Jason GoulahProfessor and Director, Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education, Leadership, Language and Curriculum, DePaul University, Illinois, United States Nozomi Inukai
Translation, Research and Instruction Faculty, Department of Leadership, Language and Curriculum, DePaul University, Illinois, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Considering Digital Pedagogies
KEYWORDS
Value-Creating Education, Global Citizenship, Dialogue, Collaboration
