Educational Thoughts of Kazi Nazrul Islam and Its Relevance in Contemporary Era

Santosh Kumar Behera^1,

¹Department of Education, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal, India

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Santosh Kumar Behera. Educational Thoughts of Kazi Nazrul Islam and Its Relevance in Contemporary Era. American Journal of Educational Research. 2021; 9(11):686-694. doi: 10.12691/education-9-11-5

Abstract

Twentieth century is revered as the most auspicious epoch of modern Indian civilization. Many dazzling stars came into the various fields in the aftermath of Indian Renaissance who further removed ancient mist from society. In the period of full flowering of nationalism, Kazi Nazrul Islam appeared to be a pole star to guide the common folk. He is one of the versatile figures in Bengali literature authoring many poems, songs, plays and novels. He is well known as ‘Rebel’ poet. His writings are equipped with equal amount of empathy, humanistic principles and universalism. In the era of Swadeshi he was also of the opinion of Indianization of education framework in vogue. He had deep respect on the glory, values and age-old tradition of India. He advocated for incorporation of these ideals in curriculum but in a scientific line. He uttered relentlessly in his poems for a secular school education system combined with scientific temperament. Though he was a supporter of individualistic learning, he identified himself with universal outlook. Moreover he rendered different sets of moralistic tenets for learner and teacher for a meaningful teaching learning process. Above all he was vocal for moral development of young students in a Gandhian line. His radical thought pertaining to women education is best exemplified by one of his poem Nari which seems to be a promulgation of crusade at that time. To sum up, his writings are against struggle, injustice, inequalities of people’s life. By analysing his works at length here the paper will try to interpret his attitude towards education. In this background, the present paper has tried to focus on the educational thoughts of Kazi Nazrul Islam- Concepts of Education, Aims of Education, Curriculum, Methods of Teaching, Role of Teacher and Relevance of his educational thoughts in contemporary era.

Keywords:
education educational thoughts aims curriculum methods of teaching teacher

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