Education in an age of nihilism / Nigel Blake [and 3 others].
"This book addresses concerns about educational and moral standards in a world increasingly characterised by nihilism. On the one hand there is widespread anxiety that standards are falling; on the other, new machinery of accountability and inspection to show that they are not. The authors in t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
RoutledgeFalmer,
2000.
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| Summary: | "This book addresses concerns about educational and moral standards in a world increasingly characterised by nihilism. On the one hand there is widespread anxiety that standards are falling; on the other, new machinery of accountability and inspection to show that they are not. The authors in this book state that we cannot avoid nihilism if we are simply laissez-faire about values, neither can we reduce them to standards of performance, nor must we return to traditional values. They state that we need to create a new set of values based on a critical assessment of contemporary practice in the light of a number of philosophical texts that address the question of nihilism, including the work of Nietzsche."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 239 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0750710160 9780750710169 0750710179 9780750710176 |