It includes Rabindranath Tagore's views on Education, Aims of Education, Teaching Method, Curriculum, Teacher and Santiniketan.

1. ES 1 Perspectives in Education
B.Ed. English
Education perceived by
Rabindranath
Tagore

2. Where the mind is without fear - Tagore
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
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3. Major Topics of the Unit
• Meaning and Concept of Education
• Aims of Education
• Views on Teaching Method
• Views on Curriculum
• Views on a Teacher
• Santiniketan / Vishwa Bharti University
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4. Concept of Education
“The highest education is that which does not merely
give us information but makes our life in harmony with
all existence.”
“God reveals himself through nature more effectively
than through man-made institutions. Hence, education
of a child should be under natural surroundings so that
he develops love for all things around him.”
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5. Basic Principles of his Philosophy of Education
• Harmony with all things
• Principle of Freedom
• Principle of Creative Self-Expression
• Active Communication with Nature and Man
Tagore once said, "I do not remember what I was taught, I
only remember what I learnt." Tagore's idea on education was
that every person is genius and that all students may not
bloom at the same time. So he devised a new system of
learning in Vishwa Bharati. He allowed students to continue
their course till the student and his teacher both are satisfied.
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6. Aims of Education
• Physical Development
• Intellectual Development
• Moral and Spiritual Development
• Harmonious Development
• Utilitarian Aim
• Development of International Understanding
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7. Views on Curriculum
• Subjects as the following should be included:
Literature and languages
Mother tongue, other Indian languages and foreign
languages
Mathematics, Sciences (Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics,
etc.)
Social Sciences (History, Geography, Economics, Sociology)
Agriculture, Arts, Music & Dance
Philosophy, Psychology and Technical Subjects
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8. Teaching Method
• Heuristic Method
• Activity method
• Debate and Discussion method
• Teaching while walking or travelling
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9. Views on Discipline
• Against traditional school discipline
• In favour of giving freedom to child
• Believing in Self-discipline
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10. Role of a Teacher
• Loving, caring, sympathetic, sensitive
• Beyond textbook teaching-learning – a teacher should
give more emphasis on learning with nature
• A motivator for children’s creative and constructive
activities
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11. Vishwa Bharti International University
(1901)
• First set as a School Santiniketan, now Vishwa Bharti –
an International University
• Motto – “Where the whole world forms its one single
nest”
• As a Central University now
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12. "In every nation, education is intimately associated with the life of
the people. For us, modern education is relevant only to turning out
clerks, lawyers, doctors, magistrates and policemen.. . . This
education has not reached the farmer, the oil grinder, or the potter.
No other educated society has been struck with such disaster. ... If
ever a truly Indian university is established it must from the very
beginning implement India's own knowledge of economics,
agriculture, health, medicine and of all other everyday knowledge
from the surrounding villages. Then alone can the school or
university become the centre of the country's living. This school must
practice agriculture, dairying and weaving using the best modern
methods .... I have proposed to call this school Visva Bharati” (Tagore
1963, cited here from Jha 1997: 610).
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13. IMP Questions
1. Tagore’s Views on Education
2. Tagore’s Views on Santiniketan
3. Concept of Education according to Tagore
4. Elaborate Tagore’s ideas on Education with reference
to his views on a Teacher and Teaching Method
5. Aims of Education according to Tagore
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