Education in an Age of Nihilism: Education and Moral Standards

by Richard Smith, Paul Smeyers, Nigel Blake, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750710179
• ISBN13: 9780750710176
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"