Education in an Age of Nihilism: Education and Moral Standards

by Nigel Blake

2021-01-08 03:27:00

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... Read more
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 simplylaissez-faireabout 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. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.43 X 0.5 in
Print pages272
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date January 28, 2001
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780750710176
Author
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