Practice Wisdom

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.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementPart 1: Understanding Practice Wisdom1. Appreciating Practice WisdomJoy Higgs2. Wisdom, (Moral) Virtue and KnowledgeDavid Carr3. Social Practice WisdomBernard McKenna4. Mindfulness and Practical WisdomDiane Tasker and Joy Higgs5. Practice Wisdom and Professional Artistry: Entering a Place of Human FlourishingAngie Titchen6. A Place for Phrónêsis in Professional Practice: A Reflection of Turbulent TimesAllan Pitman and Elizabeth Anne Kinsella7. Resilience, Self-management and Agency: Living Practice Wisdom WellRachael FieldPart 2: Practice Wisdom and Society8. Contested Practice: Being “Wise” in an Age of UncertaintyNita L. Cherry9. Practice Wisdom and the Sociological ImaginationJan Fook10. A Lived Experience of Aboriginal Knowledges and Perspectives: How Cultural Wisdom Saved My LifeSandy O’Sullivan11. Practical Wisdom and Ethical ActionKarolina Rozmarynowska12. Developing Wise OrganisationsBernard McKenna13. Learning Practice Wisdom from Elders: Wisdom Moments and How to Recognise ThemBarbara Hill, Aunty Beryl Yungha-Dhu Philip-Carmichael and Ruth Bacchus14. Bringing Spirituality and Wisdom into PracticeJohn Wattis, Melanie Rogers, Gulnar Ali and Stephen CurranPart 3: Practice Wisdom in Practice15. Practice Wisdom DevelopmentJoy Higgs16. Master Mariners and Practice WisdomBradley Roberts and Joy Higgs17. Learning Embodied Practice Wisdom: The Young Sapling Learning from the Old TreeAngie Titchen and Niamh Kinsella18. Practice Wisdom of Expert InquirersPhillip Dybicz19. Skill Acquisition and Clinical Judgement in Nursing Practice: Towards Expertise and Practical WisdomPatricia Benner20. Health and Human Service Professionals and Practice Wisdom: Developing Rich Learning EnvironmentsLester J. Thompson21. The Place of Wisdom in Clinical Practice: Taking a Vygotskyian ApproachRodd Rothwell22. Wisdom and Ethico-Legal Practice: Ways of Seeing and Ways of BeingDeborah Bowman23. Valuing Critical Reflection and Narratives in Professional Practice WisdomLaura Béres24. Embodied Wisdom in the Creative Arts Therapies: Learning from Contemporary ArtJoy Paton and Sheridan Linnell25. Wise Practice for Teaching: Messages for Future Generations of TeachersJanice OrrellNotes on Contributors