A poem in a medium not of words
Music, dance and arts education in Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12712972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Pritchard (0000-0003-3534-0956, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 101-114 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-0222 • E-ISSN: 1741-265X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474022213491344 |
| OpenAlex | W2009291513 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
In light of recent attempts to defend the role of the arts in education against the effects of policies based on utilitarian principles, this paper examines the arts educational writings and practical projects of Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) at Santiniketan in West Bengal, showing how they were motivated by a Romantic and Upanishadic philosophy centred on the anti-utilitarian concept of ‘surplus’. While the development of Santiniketan’s present arts and music departments away from Tagore’s original ideals is acknowledged and traced, the paper argues that Tagore’s aesthetic and educational philosophy still contains much to challenge us. In many ways, his thought can be seen as more compatible with progressive and liberal arts education than the ideology of high modernism that developed at the same period in Europe
Aesthetics · Art · Arts in education · Dance · Higher education · Ideology · Literature · Modernism (music · Music education · Pedagogy · Philosophy of education · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Romanticism · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Diverse Music Education Insights · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Law · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |