Reconstruction and Education in Rural India in the Light of the Programee carried on at Sriniketan the Institute of Rural Reconstruction Founded by Rabindranath Tagore

As the title of the study indicates the problems are of Bengal villages but they can very well be the problems of the rest of rural India and the same measures with very little modification could be employed in the work of rural reconstruction and rural education in those parts. [...] THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS AND COMMUNITY 230 LEADERS The Present Qualification of Village School Teachers 230 Qualifications of Teachers in other Phases of Village Life - 232 Aim of the Institute to propagate its Ideas 233 Suggested Courses of Study and the Programme of Instruction 234 Programme for the carrying out of the Objectives of Different Courses 247 Facilities for such a Training at the Ins [...] In addition to all these extensions the addition of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction with its various buildings and departments has made the programme of education complete for the harmonious development of the cultural economic and social life of the people. [...] Tagore describes the threefold purpose in the founding of the ViswBharati in the following words: i. To concentrate in Santiniketan in the midst of the Ashram the different cultures of the East especially those that have originated in India or found shelter within her shores. [...] With the dying of the trades and the impoverishment of the soil came poverty; and with the advent of poverty the physical condition of the people became extremely poor.