Overview
- Describes the evolution of Tagore’s ideas stemming from his personal experience of schooling
- Elucidates the emergence of a university that would offer the best of the east and the west as well as Visva-Bharati in contemporary times
- Explains Tagore's aim to extend education for social rejuvenation, uplift and reconstruction of rural societies and rural life
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education (BRIEFSKEY)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Dartington Hall School
- India education
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Sriniketan
- The Parrot's Training
- Visva-Bharati
- alternative education
- brahmacharya system
- co-education
- colonial education system
- creative learning
- creativity education
- extension of self
- mass education
- progressive education
- rural reconstruction
- social justice education
About this book
This new addition to Springer’s series on Key Thinkers in World Education tracks the intellectual and philosophical journey of a trail-blazing innovator whose ideas have fired the imaginations of progressive educationalists for almost a century. The volume’s in-depth analysis of the educational philosophy of Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore offers an unrivalled focus on his highly influential views.
Tagore—poet, internationalist, humanist, and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for literature—lived on the cusp of change between two momentous centuries in world civilization and foresaw the dissolution of colonialism and the globalization of culture. His ideas on education placed the creative individual at the centre of the quest for knowledge. Eschewing the artificial distinctions between elementary and higher learning, he advocated the importance of sowing the seed of humanism as early as possible, and fostering the individual’s enjoyment of education as well as their courage to challenge conventions. In doing so, he anticipated the modern concern with critical thinking at the same time as he was encouraging independence of thought and action as a counter to colonial oppression and condescension. Concise yet thorough, this volume on one of the most original thinkers of the last century covers every aspect of Tagore’s highly original educational philosophy.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rabindranath Tagore
Book Subtitle: Adventure of Ideas and Innovative Practices in Education
Authors: Kumkum Bhattacharya
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00837-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00836-3Published: 11 December 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00837-0Published: 29 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 107