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School Education for Today: Extending Tagore and Gandhi’s Idea of a Good Society (Swaraj) and Its Accompanying New Education (Nai Talim)

In: Social Entrepreneurship and Gandhian Thoughts in the Post-COVID World

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  • Pallavi Varma Patil

    (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE))

  • Sujit Sinha

    (Independent Trainer and Consultant)

Abstract

Industrialism—an ideology of unlimited material growth fueled by extractive economies and large-scale science and technology led by centralized nation-states—is showing signs of collapsing. Gandhi and Tagore were two of the earliest proponents of an alternative to industrialism called Swaraj. Today, similar frameworks have emerged worldwide. Gandhi and Tagore proposed and experimented with an alternative education not only in tandem with but also intended to help usher in Swaraj. Gandhi called this education Nai Talim. This paper is primarily about our current formulations of Swaraj and Nai Talim. We provide examples of such educational experiments in India and other parts of the world. We also include imagined possibilities and a few limitations, concluding with reasons for hope in these various efforts.

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  • Pallavi Varma Patil & Sujit Sinha, 2023. "School Education for Today: Extending Tagore and Gandhi’s Idea of a Good Society (Swaraj) and Its Accompanying New Education (Nai Talim)," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: Babita Bhatt & Israr Qureshi & Dhirendra Mani Shukla & Vinay Pillai (ed.), Social Entrepreneurship and Gandhian Thoughts in the Post-COVID World, pages 85-107, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-99-4008-0_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-4008-0_5
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