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 article explores practical wisdom (Aristotle's phronēsis) - a values-led reasoning that draws on a combining of different kinds of knowledge to arrive at wiser actions and decisions. It also explores how practical wisdom is foundational to teacher professionalism and transformative change in education for human flourishing".
Julia Flutter
University of Cambridge
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This page is a summary of: Mapping Collegial Practical Wisdom for Teacher Professionalism, June 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004735835_004.
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