Rabindranath Tagore Adventure of Ideas and Innovative Practices in Education /

• Main Author: Bhattacharya, Kumkum (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Education > Philosophy.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.

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 phil...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 The Emerging Picture – A Social-historical Perspective and the Significant Personalities
• Chapter 3 Progressive Ideas and the Idea of the Tapovana
• Chapter 4 Visva-Bharati: The Transnational Centre of Education
• Chapter 5 Extension of the Self and Rural Reconstruction
• Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Home and the World.