Self-Education: A Gandhian Perspective - Hardcover

The purpose of this inquiry in the philosophy of education is to get clearer about some aspects of self-education which is a form of education that is self-directed by the individual, produced in deliberately conducted experiments and gained through experience. The conceptual aspects of self-education are those which are breaking up the self-educative process into features like choosing, deciding, and doing. It normative aspects are examined with the help of an hypothesis on what self-education ought to be, namely a means and an end following a humanistic line in though and action. The inquiry is undertaken in a Gandhian perspective, i.e., it attempts to demonstrate some principal features of Gandhian though without following their each and every detail. It is at times even a criticism of Gandhian thought and obeys in this the Gandhian desire to examine ruthlessly to arrive at truth, About The Author:- Dr. Bernd Pflug is a teacher at Kodaikanal International school, Tamilnadu. His research is focused on humanistic aspects in a philosophy of education. The present study was conducted during his Sabbatical 1993-94 as a Visiting Professor at the School of Gandhian Studies and Peace Science, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala., Contents:- Preface · Synopsis · Introduction and thesis · Self-education and congruence · Self-education and situation truth · Self-educating experiencing and congruence yielding · Conclusion · References and note · Bibliography · Index.