Six transformative indices for evaluating value-creating education, from self-centeredness toward well-being in the greater social good¶

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Description¶

Makiguchi delineates six transformative indices whereby the results of value-creating education can be evaluated. They demarcate human progress "from self-centered to a social and altruistic mode of living" and include movement from unconscious emotional living to self-mastery, from less to greater value creation, from dependent to independent principle-based judgment, from external influence to autonomy, and from desire-dominated living to self-reflective purposeful living.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Educational environments that nurture and lead learners toward value creation

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• all students

Target Goals¶

• self-mastery
• value creation
• altruistic living
• principle-based judgment
• autonomy
• self-reflective purpose

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Related Patterns¶

Examples¶

• Advance value-creating-modeled curriculum projects in Africana communities to foster ubuntu, happiness, and contributive lifestyles
• School training for delinquents organized around social values of each curriculum subject

Key Sources¶

• Stewart Williams, J. E. (2020). Daisaku Ikeda's Philosophy of Value-Creating Global Citizenship Education and Africana Humanism: Africa as the Continent of the 21st Century. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 9(SI). https://ojed.org/jise