Rabindranath Tagore’s Journey as an Educator

Mohammad A. Quayum is an Honorary Professor at Flinders University, Australia and has taught at universities in Australia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore and the US. He has published extensively on American literature, Asian Anglophone literature and Bengali literature. His recent publications include Reading Malaysian Literature in English: Ethnicity, Gender, Diaspora, and Nationalism (2021), Bangladeshi Literature in English: A Critical Anthology (2021), Tagore Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism (2020), Beyond Boundaries: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore (2014) and One Sky, Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English (2014).

Introduction Part I: Tagore vis-s-vis Other Educational Thinkers 1. Tagore and Montaigne: Exponents of Modern, Moral Education 2. The Educational Paradigms of Tagore and Rousseau: A Critical Comparison 3. Tagore and Morris: Education for Utopia 4. Tagore and Gandhi: An Inclusive Approach to Open Education 5. Tagore and Rokeya: Autodidacts as Educational Pioneers Part II: Tagore’s Educational Ideals 6. Tagore’s Educational Philosophy: Entwined Theory and Practice 7. Education for Tomorrow: The Vision of Rabindranath Tagore 8. Never Not an Educator: Tagore as a Poet-Teacher 9. Towards the Symbol of a Missing Fullness: The Place of Travel and Education in Tagore’s World Vision 10. Tagore: Education for Personal Freedom and Self-fulfilment 11. Educating Imagined Communities: Tagore’s Pedagogical Vision 12. Rabindranath Tagore, Imaginative Literature and Educating the Child: A Study 13. Approaching the Poet’s School: Colonial Modernity, Inclusive Development and Tagore’s Philosophy of Education 14. Educational Takeaways from Tagore’s Drama Achalayatan Part III: Tagore’s Educational Experiments 15. The Educational Paradigms in the Santiniketan School through the Lens of Continental Pedagogy 16. Rabindranath Tagore and the Idea of a Green University 17. Sriniketan Experiment: Emergence of Community Immersion as a Pedagogical Tool? 18. Rolf Schoembs Vidyashram: A Santal School Strives to Follow Tagore’s Vision Notes on Contributors Index