Abstract
Educationist philosophers have often criticised modern schooling because of the features of fragmentation due to measurement and classification, promoting disconnectedness. Summarized as dissociation of self from the world, modern schools are founded upon the objectivist paradigm of understanding and acquiring knowledge. By the time school students become adults, we have already inculcated normalisation of divisiveness and disjunctures thereby reproducing and adding it into the world making it more fragmented. This sociological and educational problem calls for spirituality to be made part of schooling systems not merely as fillers or extra curricular activities but in epistemology and holistic approach to reorient what we understand by knowledge and reality, how we acquire it and what are the implications of such knowledge in overall well being of the world. Taking Herman Hesse’s selected novels I extend an understanding of this reorientation that includes self as the knowable.
Presenters
Paridhi JoshiStudent, MA Sociology, Indira Gandhi National Open University New Delhi, Uttaranchal, India
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Spirituality, Holism, Modern schooling, Hermann Hesse, Pedagogy
