Rabindranath Tagore’s Journey as an Educator : Critical Perspectives on His Poetics and Praxis (Paperback)

Introduction Part I: Tagore vis-s-vis Other Educational Thinkers 1. Tagore and Montaigne: Exponents of Modern, Moral Education 2. The Educational Paradigms of Tagore and Rousseau: A Critical Comparison 3. Tagore and Morris: Education for Utopia 4. Tagore and Gandhi: An Inclusive Approach to Open Education 5. Tagore and Rokeya: Autodidacts as Educational Pioneers Part II: Tagore’s Educational Ideals 6. Tagore’s Educational Philosophy: Entwined Theory and Practice 7. Education for Tomorrow: The Vision of Rabindranath Tagore 8. Never Not an Educator: Tagore as a Poet-Teacher 9. Towards the Symbol of a Missing Fullness: The Place of Travel and Education in Tagore’s World Vision 10. Tagore: Education for Personal Freedom and Self-fulfilment 11. Educating Imagined Communities: Tagore’s Pedagogical Vision 12. Rabindranath Tagore, Imaginative Literature and Educating the Child: A Study 13. Approaching the Poet’s School: Colonial Modernity, Inclusive Development and Tagore’s Philosophy of Education 14. Educational Takeaways from Tagore’s Drama Achalayatan Part III: Tagore’s Educational Experiments 15. The Educational Paradigms in the Santiniketan School through the Lens of Continental Pedagogy 16. Rabindranath Tagore and the Idea of a Green University 17. Sriniketan Experiment: Emergence of Community Immersion as a Pedagogical Tool? 18. Rolf Schoembs Vidyashram: A Santal School Strives to Follow Tagore’s Vision Notes on Contributors Index