Education is always an experience serene, vibrant, unending. For social change, it is something more than that. It is an exciting edventure for the excellence of ‘men’ in every man. Misunderstood and misinterpreted more often than not. Perhaps because of poverty of inward evaluation and depth of vision and more perhaps because of absence of appropriate appreciation to the multi-dimensional personality of an incomparable colossus, Rabindranath Tagore’s poignant thoughts and experiments on education for social change await a re-valuation right now. Social awareness, socio-aesthetic and socio-mystic fulfillment side by side with critical and creative appreciation are some of the iconoclastic and abiding parameters of his theory and practice on education for humanistic and social transcendence. Which mark a significant point of departure from ukasa in the name of education for the hoi polloi. Here is an in-depth study of Tagore’s unparalleled viewpoints and experiments on education for social change. A high time now for redirecting social change in the right perspective, Tagore and Education for Social Change might be a valuable contribution to Tagoreana and social education.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mohit Chakrabarti
Mohit Chakrabarti, D. Litt. Teaches English and Education at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. Honoured with National Award. Credited with participation/ presentation/ acceptance of Papers in International/National conferences, symposia, seminars etc. including the World Assembly of Teacher Educators, the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, Institution of Education, Singapore, First International Symposium on ‘India and World Literature’, University of Delhi, Delhi, Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Haifa, Israel, Workshop on Setting the Agenda for the 21 Century, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, Syama Prasad Mookerjee Centenary Conference on Sustainable Economic Social and Political Reforms in the Information Age, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. Member, National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), New Delhi. Consistent and prolific contributor to studies and researches on Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Ganchi and Swami Vivekananda. Author of children’s literature in Bengali and English.
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