Education in an Age of Nihilism

<p>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 <em>laissez-faire</em> 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.</p>