@article{696347,
      author = {Bhattacharya, Kumkum,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/696347},
      title = {Rabindranath Tagore adventure of ideas and innovative  practices in education / [electronic resource] :},
      abstract = {This new addition to Springers series on Key Thinkers in  World Education tracks the intellectual and philosophical  journey of a trail-blazing innovator whose ideas have fired  the imaginations of progressive educationalists for almost  a century. The volumes in-depth analysis of the educational  philosophy of Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore offers  an unrivalled focus on his highly influential views.  Tagorepoet, internationalist, humanist, and the first  non-European to win the Nobel Prize for literaturelived on  the cusp of change between two momentous centuries in world  civilization and foresaw the dissolution of colonialism and  the globalization of culture. His ideas on education placed  the creative individual at the centre of the quest for  knowledge. Eschewing the artificial distinctions between  elementary and higher learning, he advocated the importance  of sowing the seed of humanism as early as possible, and  fostering the individuals enjoyment of education as well as  their courage to challenge conventions. In doing so, he  anticipated the modern concern with critical thinking at  the same time as he was encouraging independence of thought  and action as a counter to colonial oppression and  condescension. Concise yet thorough, this volume on one of  the most original thinkers of the last century covers every  aspect of Tagores highly original educational philosophy.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00837-0},
      recid = {696347},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 107 pages).},
}