Argues that despite claims of self-styled 'postmodernists of resistance', postmodernism provides neither a viable educational politics nor a foundation for effective radical educational practice. In place of postmodernism, the bookoutlines a 'politics of human resistance' which puts the challenge to capitalism and its attendant inequalities firmly on the agenda of educational theory, politics and practice.

Enseignement de la morale et philosophie, qui inaugure la serie, s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un effort de valorisation de l'enseignement de la morale et de reflexion sur la place fondamentale de la philosophie dans la formation morale.