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Article
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
Book Section
"Wann beginnt Montessori-Früherziehung?" ["When does early Montessori education start?"]
Book Title: 100 Jahre Montessori-Kinderhaus Geschichte und Aktualität eines pädagogischen Konzepts [100 Years of the Montessori Children's Home: History and Topicality of an Educational Concept]
Pages: 130-153
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Language: German
Published: Berlin, Germany: LIT Verlag, 2009
ISBN: 978-3-8258-1650-6
Series: Impulse der Reformpädagogik , 24
Article
Reforming Public Education: The IMS Montessori Approach
Available from: Internet Archive
Publication: Montessori Observer, vol. 29, no. 4
Date: Nov 2008
Pages: 1, 4
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Language: English
ISSN: 0889-5643
Article
Impressions of the Study Conference on Peace and Education, March 23-31, 1985
Publication: AMI Elementary Alumni Association Newsletter, vol. 12, no. 3
Date: 1985
Pages: insert
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Language: English
Article
Goals of a Montessori Education
Publication: Montessori NewZ, vol. 44
Date: Dec 2006
Pages: 7
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Language: English
Article
A Study of Pedagogy and the Nature of Imagination in Montessori Education / 몬테소리 교육학에서 상상력의 성격과 교수론 고찰
Available from: RISS
Publication: Montessori교육연구 [Montessori Education Research], vol. 12
Date: 2007
Pages: 121-139
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Language: Korean
ISSN: 1226-9417
Article
Some Recent Empirical Research on Montessori Education in Italy
Publication: MoRE Montessori Research Europe newsletter, no. 1
Date: 2009
Europe, Italy, Southern Europe
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Abstract/Notes: Maria Montessori’s position on scientific pedagogy and her method involves two problem areas: firstly, the necessity to clarify and define the relationship between scientific pedagogy and other sciences, particularly anthropology and physiological and experimental psychology, and, secondly, the necessity to delineate a research method and objectives. She explicitly recognised the importance of these new fields of experimental science, defining them not coincidently as corner stones of new pedagogy referring above all to their contribution to the development of observation procedures for the discovery of children’s psychological and morphological characteristics.
Language: English
ISSN: 2281-8375
Book
Contemporary Critics of Education
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Language: English
Published: Danville, Illinois: Interstate Printers and Publishers, [1970]
Article
Co-operatives and Education
Available from: Internet Archive
Publication: The Western Comrade, vol. 3, no. 3
Date: Jul 1915
Pages: 15-19
Americas, Llano del Rio Colony, Montessori method of education, North America, North America, United States of America
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Language: English
Book
La paix et l'éducation
Maria Montessori - Writings, Peace
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Language: French
Published: Roma, Italy: Opera Montessori, 1949