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The dark side of critical thinking and the need to restore learning relationships

Niclas Rönnström
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Niclas Rönnström Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden   Abstract In the 20th century, critical thinking emerged as an important ideal in and aim of education. Hardly anyone opposes critical thinking, its weight is re-enforced in debates on education and its positive value is largely taken for granted because of the manifold promises it […]

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Rönnström, N. (2024). The dark side of critical thinking and the need to restore learning relationships. ACCESS: Contemporary Issues in Education, 44(2), 71-83. https://doi.org/10.46786/ac24.8788

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Thinking with Spinoza, Locke, and Dewey about self-control, education, and democracy

Atli Harðarson
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Atli Harðarson School of Education, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland   Abstract In the 17th century Spinoza and Locke wrote about education as aiming at self-control. In the 20th century Dewey argued for a similar view in Experience and education, where he described education as enabling people to have control over their own lives. These […]

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Harðarson, A. (2024). Thinking with Spinoza, Locke, and Dewey about self-control, education, and democracy. ACCESS: Contemporary Issues in Education, 44(2), 23-34. https://doi.org/10.46786/ac24.7516
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