Knowledge and Curriculum
Educational Thoughts of Rabindranath
Tagore
´ Rabindranath
Tagore believed that during education a child should enjoy freedom.
´ He
should be free from all compulsions restrictions.
´ He
supported the idea that the most effective and powerful teacher for a child is
nature.
´ He
believed in international brotherhood.
Aims of Education:
1.
To develop the child physical
activities.
2.
To promote mental development by
providing more and more activities and experiences in the open field where
nature teachers more than books.
3.
To develop an international attitude
in children.
4.
To promote the moral and spiritual
development of the child through self –discipline, tolerance, courtesy and
inner freedom.
5.
To draw out all the latent faculties
of the child. His self-development, self-expression, and self-experience can
only are reinforced by individual experiences.
Teaching Method
1.
Teaching Methods should be based on
the real problems of life.
2.
They should bring out the development
of the child should be provided with more and more opportunities to investigate
and research from original resources by free activities so that he gains
knowledge directly.
3.
Tagore believed that “ Teaching while
walking is the method of education “
4.
Tagore emphasized that teaching
method should be full of life and vitality.
Teacher
Tagore gave a very important place to teacher in his
scheme of education. He has compared a
teacher with a lamb which is burning its flame, and the students that are
lighted by this lamp.
1.
The teacher should behave with the
child with great love, affection, sympathy and consideration.
2.
The teacher should always be busy
with motivating the creative capacities of children.so that he engages himself
in useful and constructive activities and learn by his own experiences.
3.
The teacher should provide conducive environment
to the child.
Curriculum
´ According
to Tagore curriculum should be such as to develop an individual physically,
mentally, morally socially and spiritually to the almost limit.
´ Curriculum
includes history, geography, nature study, agriculture, horticulture, gardening,
field study, laboratory work, original creations, arts, sculpture, vocational, professional
and technical subjects, co-curriculum
includes dancing, singing, painting, designing, sewing, cutting, knitting and
cooking.
Conclusion
Rabindranath
Tagore educational thoughts are activity based and he advocated that children
should be busy always in doing some constructive works.
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