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Original Articles

Learning to Think: Arendt on Education for Democracy

Pages 49-62 | Published online: 30 Jan 2008

References

  • Hannah Arendt , Eichmann in Jerusalem ( Middlesex , England : Penguin Books , 1976 ), p. 279 .
  • An exception is Hannah Arendt , “ The Crisis in Education ,” in Between Past and Future ( Middlesex , England : Penguin Books , 1977 ), pp. 173 – 196
  • Hannah Arendt , The Origins of Totalitarianism ( New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch , 1951 ).
  • Hannah Arendt , The Life of the Mind: Part 1, Thinking ( New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch , 1977 ), p. 3 .
  • Ibid. , p. 4 .
  • Ibid.
  • Think of such examples as Dostoyevski's Roghozin ( The Idiot) or Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment), or Kierkegaard's Diary of the Seducer.
  • For example, Kafka ( The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika ), or Sartre (No Exit and Altona)
  • Arendt , Eichmann in Jerusalem , p. 49 .
  • Ibid.
  • Ibid. , p. 48 .
  • Theodore Stanger , Newsweek International , December 7, 1987 , p. 49.
  • Hannah Arendt , “What is Freedom,” in Between Past and Future ( Middlesex , England : Penguin Books , 1977 ), p. 146 .
  • Nicolas Maxwell , From Knowledge to Wisdom ( Oxford , England : Basil Blackwell , 1984 ), p. 92 .
  • Paulo Freire , Pedagogy of the Oppressed ( New York : Seabury , 1970 ); also, Cultural Action for Freedom (Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1972).
  • See, for example, Ira Shor , Critical Teaching and Everyday Life ( Boston : South End Press , 1980 ).
  • For a fascinating collection of her essays in which various aspects of this theme are developed, see, Maxine Greene , Landscapes of Learning ( New York : Teachers College Press , 1978 ).
  • For instance, in The Origins of Totalitarianism , Arendt discusses Proust and T.E. Lawrence . In Between Past and Future , she discusses Kafka. One could give many additional examples.
  • For an excellent critique and overview of the development of the entire concept of critical thinking and its relevance to the curriculum, see John E. McPeck , Critical Thinking and Education ( Oxford , England : Martin Robertson , 1981 ).
  • Arendt , The Life of the Mind: Part 1, Thinking , p. 171 .
  • McPeck , Critical Thinking and Education , shows this clearly. See, especially, Chapters I-III.
  • Arendt , The Life of the Mind: Part 1, Thinking , p. 193 .
  • Arendt , Eichmann in Jerusalem , especially pp. 93 – 105
  • Arendt , The Origins of Totalitarianism , p. 479 .
  • Arendt , Between Past and Future , pp. 17 – 18

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