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Education for Tomorrow: The Vision of Rabindranath Tagore
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Asian Studies Review, vol. 40, no. 1
Date: 2016
Pages: 1-16
Asia, India, Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore - Biographic sources, Santiniketan (India), South Asia, Sriniketan (India), Viśva Bhāratī
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Abstract/Notes: This article investigates Rabindranath Tagore’s educational vision, which underpinned the three institutions he set up in India – Santiniketan (1901), Visva-Bharati (1921) and Sriniketan (1922). It argues that this vision is still relevant for the world of today and tomorrow, and that it should be taken into account in designing any educational model for the future. Tagore rejected the modern mechanical learning that focuses merely on cultivation of the individual’s mind, in favour of learning that encourages the creativity, imagination and moral awareness of students. He believed that education should be not for mere “success” or “progress” but for “illumination of heart” and for inculcation of a spirit of sympathy, service and self-sacrifice in the individual, so that s/he could rise above egocentrism and ethnocentrism to a state of global consciousness or worldcentrism. In pursuing this argument, I refer to Tagore’s letters, lectures, interviews and essays, both in Bengali and in English, a body of his short stories, his novel The Home and the World and his allegorical poem “Two Birds”. I also explain his awareness of the educational movements of his time in the West, and draw brief parallels with selected Western luminaries in the field, such as Plato, Montaigne, Rousseau and John Dewey. My contention is that although some may dismiss Tagore’s educational principles as “rickety sentimentalism” in a world that is palpable and real, his ideas of human fellowship, unity and creativity, and kinship for nature seem irrefutable with the rise of multiculturalism and the looming ecological crisis threatening world peace.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2015.1125441
ISSN: 1035-7823
Article
Jiang su sheng jiao yu hui meng tie suo li jiao ju yan jiu hui [Conference Record of the Montessori Teaching Materials Research Association of Jiangsu Education Association]
Publication: Chong Hua Educational Review, vol. 4, no. 5
Date: 1915
Pages: 7-9
Asia, China, East Asia, Montessori method of education
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Language: Chinese
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The Origins and Development of Child-Centred Education: Implications for Classroom Management
Available from: Sabinet African Journals
Publication: Educare (South Africa), vol. 32, no. 1-2
Date: 2003
Pages: 222-239
Africa, Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Montessori method of education - History, South Africa, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Abstract/Notes: Since 1994 far-reaching curriculum changes in the form of an Outcomes-based Education (OBE) approach to schooling have been put into practice in South Africa. One of the pillars of OBE is a child (learner)-centred approach, that has an impact on virtually every aspect of classroom management. The question that arises is: what is a child-centred approach and what are its implications for classroom management? This article traces the broad issues surrounding the origins of a child-centred approach and investigates the implications of the implementation of a child-centred approach for classroom management. It concludes that child-centred teaching is still more rhetoric than reality in South Africa, because of certain constraints faced by educators. Constraints educators have to deal with in their classrooms, such as class size and inadequate training label education as child-conscious rather than child-centred.
Language: English
ISSN: 0256-8829
Archival Material Or Collection
Box 16, Folder 11 - Notes, ca. 1929-1948 - "Maths" [Decimals; Arithmetic; Education for Democracy; Fractions; Two Points;Dominated by History; S. Periods in Development; Language; Seasonal Materials; Study of Numbers, Triangles; Teaching Religion; Geography, Geometry, Money Sums, Literature; Multiplication; Fractions, Teaching Notes; Mathematics; Groups]
Available from: Seattle University
Date: ca.1929-1948
Edwin Mortimer Standing - Biographic sources, Edwin Mortimer Standing - Writings
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Language: English
Archive: Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections
Article
Excerpts from 'Peace and Education'
Publication: The National Montessori Reporter, vol. 7, no. 1
Date: 1983
Pages: 5, 12
Conferences, International Montessori Congress (2nd, Nice, France, 29 July - 12 August 1932), Maria Montessori - Writings, Peace education
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Abstract/Notes: Address given at 2nd International Montessori Congress, Nice, France, 1932/1931
Language: English
Article
Educational Exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Available from: HathiTrust
Publication: Journal of Education (Boston), vol. 81, no. 6
Date: Feb 11, 1915
Pages: 148-150, 156
Americas, Montessori schools, North America, United States of America, United States of America
Article
Italian Educational Idealism
Available from: The Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive - Gale
Publication: The Times Educational Supplement (London, England)
Date: Sep 4, 1919
Pages: 445-446
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Language: English
ISSN: 0040-7887
Article
Montessori Secondary Education – A Parent’s Perspective
Publication: Montessori Insights
Date: 2015
Pages: 17
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Language: English
Article
Freedom In Education; The Montessori System
Publication: The Times (London, England)
Date: Nov 18, 1912
Pages: 3
Montessori method of education - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Language: English
ISSN: 0140-0460
Article
Early Childhood Education: The National Agenda
Publication: NAMTA Journal, vol. 16, no. 1
Date: Fall/Winter 1990
Pages: 104-112
North American Montessori Teachers' Association (NAMTA) - Periodicals
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Language: English
ISSN: 1522-9734