ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |66 pages
Working Without Values
chapter |13 pages
Education Without Risk
chapter |14 pages
Life Skills, Teaching Skills
chapter |25 pages
Choice, Narrative and Work
chapter |12 pages
Education and the Last Man
part |73 pages
Overcoming Nihilism
part |88 pages
Raising Standards