The role of the arts in Tagoreʼs concept of schooling

Lesar, Irena (author)

The present article focuses particularly on the role and significance of the arts in the process of primary schooling in Tagore’s school. He defined education as that which is one with life, and he believed that only education can give us real freedom. It is therefore essential that in the process of education we achieve the all-round development of the individual for harmonious adjustment to reality. The arts should be an essential part of life and of education, as it is only through the arts that it is possible to express one’s experience and recognition of the harmonious connection between the universe, the individual reality and immortality, in addition to their being a source of pleasure. Only the arts (and nature as a teacher) enable the development of the entire personality, as well as the perception of reality and truth. Tagore thus understands the role of the arts in the life of the individual as a key factor in the formation of his/her personality, contributing to humanity.

• Language: English
• Keywords: education, art
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2015
• Number of pages: Str. 111-128
• Numbering: Vol. 5, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-73236
• UDC: 37.01:7
• ISSN on article: 1855-9719
• DOI: 10.26529/cepsj.131
• COBISS.SI-ID: 10763849

Copyright

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• Publication date in RUL: 28.10.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: CEPS journal : Center for Educational Policy Studies journal = revija Centra za študij edukacijskih strategij
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani = University of Ljubljana Press
• ISSN: 1855-9719
• COBISS.SI-ID: 252707584

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Vloga umetnosti v Tagorejevem konceptu šolanja

Abstract

Ta članek se osredinja predvsem na vlogo in pomembnost umetnosti v procesu vzgoje in izobraževanja v Tagorejevi šoli Shantiniketan. Tagore je vzgojno-izobraževalni proces opredelil kot eno z življenjem in je verjel, da nam lahko le vzgoja in izobraževanje dajeta resnično svobodo. Zato je ključno, da v vzgojno-izobraževalnem procesu dosežemo vsestranski razvoj posameznika za harmonično prilagoditev realnosti. Umetnost mora biti bistveni del življenja in vzgojno-izobraževalnega procesa, saj samo ta omogoča izražanje posameznikovih doživetij, predstavlja vir uživanja in ne nazadnje omogoča prepoznavanje harmonične povezanosti med vesoljem, individualno resničnostjo in nesmrtnostjo. Samo umetnost (in narava kot učitelj) omogoča razvoj celotne osebnosti pa tudi zaznavanje oz. dojemanje realnosti in resnice. Tagore torej razume vlogo umetnosti v življenju posameznika kot ključni dejavnik pri oblikovanju njegove osebnosti in kot tiste, ki prispevajo k človečnosti.

• Keywords: vzgoja in izobraževanje, umetnost, oblikovanje osebnosti, Shantiniketan