Creative adaptation of Grundtvigian educational concept in Indian Adult Education: a lab to line educational effort in rural India

This ethnographic research attempts to find relevance of Grundtvigian educational philosophy in promoting lifelong learning opportunities and the institutionalisation of community education for adults in rural India. The researcher analyses thoroughly the concept of Grundtvig’s social and educational anthropology in Indian context, which comprises pedagogical strategies and people’s enlightenment through education and social development. The research utilises relevant literature, case-study and educational model in order to analyse the contemporaneity, relevance and creative adaptation and assimilation of Grundtvigian philosophy in Indian adult education. The research argues that if the Grundtvigian alternative education and social concept could be creatively adopted and assimilated in the adult education system in rural India, the core of learning ecology in the Grundtvigian concept would be able to bring significant improvement to the traditionally rigid adult education system and support learners in exposing their inherited potential to a greater extent.