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Practice wisdom is needed because the challenges people face in life, work and society are not simple and require more than knowledge, actions and decision making capabilities. In professional practice wisdom enhances peopleâs capacity to succeed and evolve and to assist their clients in achieving positive, relevant and satisfying outcomes.
Practice Wisdom: Values and Interpretations brings diverse views and interpretations to an exploration of what wisdom in professional practice means and can become: academically, practically and inspirationally. The authors reflect on core dimensions of practice wisdom like ethics, mindfulness, moral virtue, particularisation and metacognition. The chapter authors tackle the trials that practice wisdom seekers encounter including the demand for resilience, perseverance, finding credibility and humility in practice wisdom, and linking wisdom into evidence for sound professional decision making. Readers are invited to consider what the place of practice wisdom encompasses in pursuing good practice outcomes amidst the turmoil and pressure of professional practice today. Do the imperatives of evidence-based practice and accountability leave enough space for wise practice or is wisdom seen by modern practice worlds as unnecessary, antiquated, unrealistic and redundant? Without a doubt these questions are answered positively in this book in support of the place and value of practice wisdom in professional practice today.
Practice Wisdom: Values and Interpretations brings diverse views and interpretations to an exploration of what wisdom in professional practice means and can become: academically, practically and inspirationally. The authors reflect on core dimensions of practice wisdom like ethics, mindfulness, moral virtue, particularisation and metacognition. The chapter authors tackle the trials that practice wisdom seekers encounter including the demand for resilience, perseverance, finding credibility and humility in practice wisdom, and linking wisdom into evidence for sound professional decision making. Readers are invited to consider what the place of practice wisdom encompasses in pursuing good practice outcomes amidst the turmoil and pressure of professional practice today. Do the imperatives of evidence-based practice and accountability leave enough space for wise practice or is wisdom seen by modern practice worlds as unnecessary, antiquated, unrealistic and redundant? Without a doubt these questions are answered positively in this book in support of the place and value of practice wisdom in professional practice today.
Joy Higgs, AM, PhD, Emeritus Professor at Charles Sturt University, Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales and Director of the Education, Practice and Employability Network, Australia.
Preface
Acknowledgement
1. Appreciating Practice Wisdom
âJoy Higgs
2. Wisdom, (Moral) Virtue and Knowledge
âDavid Carr
3. Social Practice Wisdom
âBernard McKenna
4. Mindfulness and Practical Wisdom
âDiane Tasker and Joy Higgs
5. Practice Wisdom and Professional Artistry: Entering a Place of Human Flourishing
âAngie Titchen
6. A Place for Phrónêsis in Professional Practice: A Reflection of Turbulent Times
âAllan Pitman and Elizabeth Anne Kinsella
7. Resilience, Self-management and Agency: Living Practice Wisdom Well
âRachael Field
8. Contested Practice: Being âWiseâ in an Age of Uncertainty
âNita L. Cherry
9. Practice Wisdom and the Sociological Imagination
âJan Fook
10. A Lived Experience of Aboriginal Knowledges and Perspectives: How Cultural Wisdom Saved My Life
âSandy OâSullivan
11. Practical Wisdom and Ethical Action
âKarolina Rozmarynowska
12. Developing Wise Organisations
âBernard McKenna
13. Learning Practice Wisdom from Elders: Wisdom Moments and How to Recognise Them
âBarbara Hill, Aunty Beryl Yungha-Dhu Philip-Carmichael and Ruth Bacchus
14. Bringing Spirituality and Wisdom into Practice
âJohn Wattis, Melanie Rogers, Gulnar Ali and Stephen Curran
15. Practice Wisdom Development
âJoy Higgs
16. Master Mariners and Practice Wisdom
âBradley Roberts and Joy Higgs
17. Learning Embodied Practice Wisdom: The Young Sapling Learning from the Old Tree
âAngie Titchen and Niamh Kinsella
18. Practice Wisdom of Expert Inquirers
âPhillip Dybicz
19. Skill Acquisition and Clinical Judgement in Nursing Practice: Towards Expertise and Practical Wisdom
âPatricia Benner
20. Health and Human Service Professionals and Practice Wisdom: Developing Rich Learning Environments
âLester J. Thompson
21. The Place of Wisdom in Clinical Practice: Taking a Vygotskyian Approach
âRodd Rothwell
22. Wisdom and Ethico-Legal Practice: Ways of Seeing and Ways of Being
âDeborah Bowman
23. Valuing Critical Reflection and Narratives in Professional Practice Wisdom
âLaura Béres
24. Embodied Wisdom in the Creative Arts Therapies: Learning from Contemporary Art
âJoy Paton and Sheridan Linnell
25. Wise Practice for Teaching: Messages for Future Generations of Teachers
âJanice Orrell
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgement
Part 1: Understanding Practice Wisdom
1. Appreciating Practice Wisdom
âJoy Higgs
2. Wisdom, (Moral) Virtue and Knowledge
âDavid Carr
3. Social Practice Wisdom
âBernard McKenna
4. Mindfulness and Practical Wisdom
âDiane Tasker and Joy Higgs
5. Practice Wisdom and Professional Artistry: Entering a Place of Human Flourishing
âAngie Titchen
6. A Place for Phrónêsis in Professional Practice: A Reflection of Turbulent Times
âAllan Pitman and Elizabeth Anne Kinsella
7. Resilience, Self-management and Agency: Living Practice Wisdom Well
âRachael Field
Part 2: Practice Wisdom and Society
8. Contested Practice: Being âWiseâ in an Age of Uncertainty
âNita L. Cherry
9. Practice Wisdom and the Sociological Imagination
âJan Fook
10. A Lived Experience of Aboriginal Knowledges and Perspectives: How Cultural Wisdom Saved My Life
âSandy OâSullivan
11. Practical Wisdom and Ethical Action
âKarolina Rozmarynowska
12. Developing Wise Organisations
âBernard McKenna
13. Learning Practice Wisdom from Elders: Wisdom Moments and How to Recognise Them
âBarbara Hill, Aunty Beryl Yungha-Dhu Philip-Carmichael and Ruth Bacchus
14. Bringing Spirituality and Wisdom into Practice
âJohn Wattis, Melanie Rogers, Gulnar Ali and Stephen Curran
Part 3: Practice Wisdom in Practice
15. Practice Wisdom Development
âJoy Higgs
16. Master Mariners and Practice Wisdom
âBradley Roberts and Joy Higgs
17. Learning Embodied Practice Wisdom: The Young Sapling Learning from the Old Tree
âAngie Titchen and Niamh Kinsella
18. Practice Wisdom of Expert Inquirers
âPhillip Dybicz
19. Skill Acquisition and Clinical Judgement in Nursing Practice: Towards Expertise and Practical Wisdom
âPatricia Benner
20. Health and Human Service Professionals and Practice Wisdom: Developing Rich Learning Environments
âLester J. Thompson
21. The Place of Wisdom in Clinical Practice: Taking a Vygotskyian Approach
âRodd Rothwell
22. Wisdom and Ethico-Legal Practice: Ways of Seeing and Ways of Being
âDeborah Bowman
23. Valuing Critical Reflection and Narratives in Professional Practice Wisdom
âLaura Béres
24. Embodied Wisdom in the Creative Arts Therapies: Learning from Contemporary Art
âJoy Paton and Sheridan Linnell
25. Wise Practice for Teaching: Messages for Future Generations of Teachers
âJanice Orrell
Notes on Contributors
All those interested in professional practice including: graduates, employers, academics, researchers, educators, members of society, scholars., industry leaders. Scholars, educators and practitioners interested in teaching and studying practice wisdom.