Education in an Age of Nihilism
Education and Moral Standards
By Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith, Paul Standish
Price: $53.95
Add to Cart
- ISBN: 978-0-7507-1017-6
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 14th December 2000
- Pages: 272
This title is available at our discretion as an Examination Copy to qualified adopters:
request examination copy
About the Book
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.
