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Education in an age of nihilism / Nigel Blake [and 3 others].

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Description: xix, 239 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0750710160
  • 9780750710169
  • 0750710179
  • 9780750710176
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 370.1 23
LOC classification:
  • LB14.7 .E393 2000
Contents:
Introduction -- Part 1. Working without values : -- 1. Education without risk -- Fragment I -- 2. Life skills, teaching skills -- 3. Choice, narrative and work -- Fragment II -- Fragment III -- 4. Education and the Last Man -- Fragment IV -- Fragment V -- Part 2. Overcoming nihilism : -- 5. Nihilism, Nietzsche and education -- 6. Our most holy duty: language and literacy -- 7. Apollo and Dionysos -- Fragment VI -- 8. Beyond pain and pleasure: affirmative ethics and integrity -- Part 3. Raising standards : -- 9. Solitude, silence, listening -- 10. The courage for immorality -- Fragment VII -- 11. On having educative relationships with one's pupils -- 12. Taking ignorance seriously. -- Fragment VII -- Fragment IX -- Reference -- Index.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part 1. Working without values : -- 1. Education without risk -- Fragment I -- 2. Life skills, teaching skills -- 3. Choice, narrative and work -- Fragment II -- Fragment III -- 4. Education and the Last Man -- Fragment IV -- Fragment V -- Part 2. Overcoming nihilism : -- 5. Nihilism, Nietzsche and education -- 6. Our most holy duty: language and literacy -- 7. Apollo and Dionysos -- Fragment VI -- 8. Beyond pain and pleasure: affirmative ethics and integrity -- Part 3. Raising standards : -- 9. Solitude, silence, listening -- 10. The courage for immorality -- Fragment VII -- 11. On having educative relationships with one's pupils -- 12. Taking ignorance seriously. -- Fragment VII -- Fragment IX -- Reference -- Index.

"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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