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VIDYASAGAR TEACHERS’ TRAINING COLLEGEMINDAPORE
SEMESTER - IV
COURSE – VI (1.4.6)
GENDER, SCHOOL AND SOCIETY
UNIT- II
PREPARED BY – DR. SWAPNA NANDI, Asst. Prof. (CWTT) in Education
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Contribution of RABINDRANATH TAGORE in Education:-Born Robindronath Thakur
7 May 1861Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Died 7 August 1941 (aged 80)Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Pen name Bhanu Singha Thakur
Occupation •Writer•composer•playwright•essayist•painter
Language •Bengali•English
Notable works
•Gitanjali•Gora•Ghare-Baire•Jana Gana Mana•Rabindra Sangeet
Notable awards
Nobel Prize in Literature1913
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• LIFE HISTORY:-
Tagore was born on 6th may 1861 in Bengal in a prosperous family.
His father Maharishi Debendranath Tagore, a well known Hindu reformer
and mystic and his mother was Srimati Sharada Devi.
At primary level his father provided him education in Sanskrit language,
Indian philosophy & Astronomy.
For higher education he was sent to Bengal Academy where in he
developed an aversion to the prevalent dull rigid and dull education.
He was then sent to England where in he left it and further studied on his
own. He gradually started writing in magazines etc.
He turned into a poet, dramatist, philosopher and painter. He was then
awarded the title of Gurudev.
He got the Nobel prize in 1913 for Gitanajali.
The then Indian govt. awarded him with knighthood bestowed in1915 which
he eventually gave away after the Jalyanwalabagh incident.
He established Vishwa Bharti on 22nd sept,1921 whose aim was to create
a synthesis of the east and west.
He died in 1941
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• PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE:-
Individualism
Naturalism
Spiritualism
Realism
Idealism
Humanism
Internationalism
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• EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY:-
Freedom
Creative Self-expression
Active Communion with Nature and Man
Internationalism
• AIMS OF EDUCATION:-
Spiritual and Moral development
Intellectual development
Physical development
International Brotherhood
Education for all
Realization of Brahma
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• Concept of Education According to Tagore:-
Education as Enlightenment: True education brings self-realization andenlightenment., it seeks to unfold all that is good and noble to individual.
Education as developmental process: Education according to him, is an allround development of human faculties for attainment of a full life.
Education as harmony: According to Tagore, "That education is highest whichnot only imparts information and knowledge to us, but also promotes loveand follow feeling between us and the living beings of the world.”
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Teaching while Travelling
Debate and Discussion
Method
Activity Method
Heuristic Method
METHODS OF TEACHING
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• DISCIPLINE:-
Against traditional school discipline.
Was in favor of giving freedom to child.
Believed in self imposed discipline
• ROLE OF TEACHER:-Tagore gave an important place to teachers
and asked them to carry out the following
activities:
Believing in purity and in his own
experiences, innocence of child, the
teacher should behave with him with
great love and affection, sympathy,
affection.
Instead if emphasizing on book learning,
the teacher should provide conducive
environment to the child so that he
engages himself in useful and
constructive activities and learn by his
own experiences.
The teacher should always be busy with
motivating the creative capacities of the
children so that he remain busy with
constructive activities and experience.
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• WOMEN EDUCATION:-
Tagore advocated women education. In 1908 he established department of women education in Shanti
Niketan. Education for masses (Universal Education). Vocational Education. Religious Education.
VISHWA BHARTI:-In 1901 Tagore set up a school Shanti Niketan.Gradually over the years, it developed into Vishwa Bharti- an
international university.Teachers and students live together in a spirit of perfect comradeship
with the motto “ where the whole world forms its one single nest.”
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“The highest education is that which does not merely gives us information, but makes
our life in harmony with all existence.”
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
“We live in the world when we love it.”
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References:-
Nayak, B.K. (2010). Education in Emerging Indian Society, Axis Publications, pp. 183-192
Panda. U. (2017-18). GENDER, SCHOOL AND SOCIETY, Rita Book Agency, pp. 89-91
Chakraborty. P. (2016-2017). GENDER, SCHOOL AND SOCIETY, Rita Book Agency, pp. 99-109
Mukherjee, D. (2017). GENDER, SCHOOL AND SOCIETY, Aheli Publishers, pp. 116-125
https://www.slideshare.net/rashmi_chauhan/contribution-of-rabinder-nath-tagore-in-eduation-pptx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore
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QUESTIONS:-
Explain the main ideas of Tagore in the field of education. Discuss the curriculum and subject which should be taught according
to Tagore.
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