What is it about?
Practical wisdom is a values-led reasoning that draws on different types of knowledge to know what is the best action to take under the circumstances we face to achieve human flourishing. Educators can draw on practical wisdom to steer their practice and decision-making towards securing the best futures for for young learners and our world.
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Why is it important?
The OECD Learning Compass for 2030 has recently been announced, setting out an ambitious remit for the future of education around the world. The Learning Compass aims are oriented towards achieving human flourishing and this timely chapter explores how practical wisdom is central to achieving this aspirational new vision for education.
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"This chapter is based on my 30 year career working with teachers, students and schools as a researcher in education. It follows four case studies in classroom practice to explore practical wisdom within teachers’ professional lives in classrooms and schools. Examples of practical wisdom - a values-led reasoning that draws on a combining of different kinds of knowledge to arrive at wiser actions and decisions - are curated in this chapter's journeying. Each case identifies key dimensions of practical wisdom for teacher professionalism (described as 'threads' in the chapter) which are woven together in the book's conclusion. The book's final chapter envisions empowering of teacher professionalism through collegial practical wisdom at a foundational level".
Julia Flutter
University of Cambridge
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This page is a summary of: Mapping Practical Wisdom through Research in Schools and Classrooms, June 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004735835_002.
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