Kwabena Siaka and Michel Nader have graciously agreed to answer questions you may have about the education activities of BSGI.
Michel Nader is a Brazilian Soka educator and lives in Sao Paolo. He studied administration at university and has been working for 24 years in Information Technology, He has been with the Educational Center for 5 year as a voluntary collaborator. The Educational Center has 3 departments. Makiguchi in Action, Literacy for Youths and Adults, and the Department of Research and Development of the Education Sciences. His special area is to lead discussions and lectures on Daisaku Ikeda's peace proposals in schools. He most recently has been presenting the proposal "Education, the Fourth Power" for students and professors. He is seeking ways to support Ikeda's proposal.
Kwabena Siaka is an American Soka scholar whose focus is on designing and conducting research and evaluations of Soka education programs. Currently, he is completing my PhD in Education Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus. His focus is higher education reform but he is also interested in exploring the effectiveness of the Soka model in all educational settings. He visited the Makiguchi in Action Project, which operates in Sao Paolo, Brazil and will be going back in a few weeks. The Project is a wonderful success story of how to implement Makiguchi's ideas and concepts in real life educational situations. While there he also visited two Soka elementary schools (one public and one private) and the Adult Literacy program.
