%0 Journal Article %T Hannah Arendt: Crisis de la autoridad y crisis en la educaci¨®n %A Sanabria %A ¨¢ngel %J Investigaci¨®n y Postgrado %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the main point of this work is to analyze the current situation of hannah arendt£¿s contributions in her classical essay £¿the crisis in education£¿ (arendt 1958/1996) to derive some considerations about the current challenges and conditions of the educational link starting from the methodological strategy: the discipline of text commentary proposed by m¨¢rquez. starting from what arendt calls £¿the task of thinking£¿, the relation between the authority crisis and the educational crisis is deeply analyzed. arendt identifi ed three hypotheses that even today give shape to the nucleus of what is considered £¿politically correct£¿ in education: (a) the postulation of a £¿world of children£¿ (b) the promotion of a £¿free£¿ of content pedagogy; and (c) the substitution of doing for learning and of game for work. as a conclusion, it is important to emphasize the validity of arendt£¿s analysis in moments in which education is submitted to pragmatic and utilitarian present pressure, whether in a technocratic or ideological aspect. %K authority crisis %K crisis of education %K educational link. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1316-00872009000200006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en