About the Book : Education is always a means of what one should be from what one is. Right from Rousseau to Rabindranath Tagore, all thinkers in the philosophy of education in the East and in the West have pondered deeply over the most desirable and radical efflorescence of the child whose education should be christened with fullness. With Rousseau child centric education as the focal point, pioneering contributions of celebrated Eastern and Western thinkers in the philosophy of education Pestalozzi, Herbart, Froebel, Montessori, Dewey, Tagore, Gandhi and Vivekananda have been discussed in detail in this book. A comprehensive, critical and penetrating analysis specially meant for teacher trainees, post graduate and research scholars in Education, Pioneers in Philosophy of Education is also a significant departure traditional and orthodox approaches to educational philosophy.

About the Author : Mohit Chakrabarti, D. Litt, teaches English and Education at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. He is a consistent and prolific contributor to studies and researches on Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda. His other books on Gandhi include Gandhian Mysticism, The Gandhian Dimensions of Education; Gandhian Aesthetics; Gandhian Humanism; Gandhian Spiritualism; Gandhian Religion; Mahatma Gandhi: A Revaluation; The Gandhian Philosophy of Man; Gandhian Socio-aesthetics; and The Gandhian Philosophy of the Spinning Wheel. Dr. Chakrabarti has presented papers on several national and international conferences. He is a former member of National Council for Teacher Education.