Introduction: Daisaku Ikeda, and Hope and Joy in Education - Jason Goulah
PART I: CURRICULUM AND TEACHING FOR HOPE AND JOY
1. Joy as Sustenance: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda and the Lotus Sutra to Nourish Vocation - Isabel Nuñez
2. Determining to be Hopeful in Hopeless Times - Nozomi Inukai and Michio Okamura
3. "Hope is a Decision": Pedagogical Acts Towards the Collective Commitment to Remake the World - Christopher Hall, Patricia Krueger-Henney, Nina Kunimoto, and Zeena Zakharia
4. A Fundamental Force at the Edge of the Formation of Society - M. Francyne Huckaby
5. Building a Change-focused Community with Practitioners as a Source of Hope - Allison Mattheis
6. Imparting Hope and Inspiring Joy: Practicing Value-Creative Dialogue in Educational Leadership - Melissa Bradford
PART II: HOPE AND JOY IN AESTHETIC AND EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE
7. Restoring Hope for the Humanities: Daisaku Ikeda, Intercultural Study, and College Classroom Experience - Anita Patterson
8. Finding Hope and Joy in Curriculum Theory through Critical Race Feminism - Theodora Regina Berry
9. Finding Hope and Joy through Daisaku Ikeda: The Rehabilitation of a Doctoral Candidate - Jayna McQueen Baker
10. Social Emotional Learning and Value-Creating Education: Synergistic Possibilities for Cultivating Hope and Joy in Higher Education - Deborah Donahue-Keegan
11. The Poetic Mind: The Key to Creating Hope and Joy in Education - Ritsuko Rita
12. Human Rights Education as a Resource for Self and Collective Transformation - Elora Chowdhury
PART III: SEEKING INNER JOY AND OUTER HOPE
13. Hope, Joy, and the Greater Self at the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning and Dialogue - Mitch Bogen
14. Value Creation and the Revitalization of Dependency as a Core Goal of Ecocritical Education - Johnny Lupinacci
15. Dancing with Hope - Walter Gershon
16. A Curriculum of Becoming - D. Joe Ohlinger
17. Hope in Remembrance of a Life Well Lived - Sandra Vanderbilt
18. Finding Hope and Joy in Life and Death: Daisaku Ikeda's Philosophy of Ningen Kyōiku (Human Education) - Jason Goulah
Conclusion: Hope and Joy, Trust and Faith, and Poison as Medicine - Isabel Nuñez