Rabindranath Tagore
Adventure of Ideas and Innovative Practices in Education
Authors: Bhattacharya, Kumkum
Free Preview- 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
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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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Introduction
Pages 1-13
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The Emerging Picture: A Social-Historical Perspective and Significant Personalities
Pages 15-29
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Progressive Ideas and the Idea of the Tapovana
Pages 31-55
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Visva-Bharati: The Transnational Centre of Education
Pages 57-73
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Extension of the Self and Rural Reconstruction
Pages 75-91
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Book Subtitle
- Adventure of Ideas and Innovative Practices in Education
- Authors
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- Kumkum Bhattacharya
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-00837-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-00837-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-00836-3
- Series ISSN
- 2211-937X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 107
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