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1. Education in an Age of Nihilism

   Education and Moral Standards

   By Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith, Paul Standish

   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...

   Published December 13th 2000 by Routledge
2. Lyotard

   Just Education

   Edited by Pradeep Dhillon, Paul Standish

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   Following Lyotard's death in 1998, this book provides an exploration of the recurrent theme of education in his work. It brings to a wider audience the significance of a body of thought about education that is subtle, profound and still largely unexplored. This book also makes an important...

   Published November 15th 2000 by Routledge
3. The Universities We Need

   Higher Education After Dearing

   By Blake, Nigel (Lecturer, Institute of Educational Technology, Open University), Smith, Richard (Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Durham), Standish, Paul (Lecturer in Education, Institute for Lifelong Learning, University of Dundee)

   This work challenges some of the assumptions behind recent thinking on lifelong learning and discusses the idea of the learning society through a reappraisal of the relationship between the university and the community. It reconsiders the demand for efficiency, effectiveness and accountability....

   Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge