Education in an age of nihilism /
Nigel Blake [and 3 others].
- xix, 239 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Working without values : -- Education without risk -- Fragment I -- Life skills, teaching skills -- Choice, narrative and work -- Fragment II -- Fragment III -- Education and the Last Man -- Fragment IV -- Fragment V -- Overcoming nihilism : -- Nihilism, Nietzsche and education -- Our most holy duty: language and literacy -- Apollo and Dionysos -- Fragment VI -- Beyond pain and pleasure: affirmative ethics and integrity -- Raising standards : -- Solitude, silence, listening -- The courage for immorality -- Fragment VII -- On having educative relationships with one's pupils -- Taking ignorance seriously. -- Fragment VII -- Fragment IX -- Reference -- Index. Part 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. Part 2. 5. 6. 7. 8. Part 3. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"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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Education--Philosophy Education--Standards. Moral education Nihilism (Philosophy)