Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: The post-war rise and fall of educational epistemology -- Knowledge in general -- Knowledge, truth and education -- Interpretation, construction and the 'postmodern' ethos -- Knowledge in particular -- Science education after postmodernism -- Truth in religion: Wittgensteinian considerations -- Truth, arts education and the 'postmodern condition' -- Fictional truth -- Moral education and the objectivity of values -- Virtues and human flourishing: a teleological justification -- The wider socio-political context -- The politics of difference and common education -- Epistemology, politics and curriculum construction -- Feminism, epistemology and education -- Knowledge and learning -- Learning as invention: education and constructivism -- Education, knowledge and critical thinking -- Assessment and the challenge of scepticism -- Postscript -- Index.