Ikeda Center for Peace Learning and Dialogue Inc

How to apply

This foundation reports that it accepts applications.

Interested applicants must submit the following materials: Ikeda Center Education Fellows Application Form, a curriculum vitae, a dissertation abstract summarizing the focus of the accepted dissertation topic, a dissertation prospectus describing the topic to be explored, a timeline for completion, a personal statement, a writing sample, a graduate transcript, and two letters of recommendation (one from a professor familiar with the student's academic work and one from the dissertation director/chair). In the summer of 2024, we held a concluding meeting via Zoom for the 3 fellows who were completing their time in the program. They also submitted their final written reports and grant spending sheets. In the fall, we received and reviewed applications for the next cohort, and admitted 4 new fellows to the program.

Deadlines: In 2024, the deadline was September 1.

Restrictions: The Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, And Dialogue, Inc.'s Education Fellows Program supports doctoral dissertations in the field of Ikeda/Soka studies in education, including its relation to the philosophy and practice of education more generally. The Ikeda Center invites a wide range of approaches, including dissertation research that examines intrinsic and extrinsic dimensions of Ikeda/Soka studies in education. By "intrinsic" we mean the historical and primary texts by Makiguchi, Toda, and Ikeda in Japanese and in the contexts in which they were written; by "extrinsic" we mean these texts and their ideas in translation and application in various contexts and disciplines.

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