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Phronesis as Professional Knowledge

Practical Wisdom in the Professions

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Elizabeth Anne Kinsella

    1. The University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada

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  2. Allan Pitman

    1. The University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada

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Part of the book series: Professional Practice and Education (PPAE, volume 1)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Engaging Phronesis in Professional Practice and Education

    • Elizabeth Anne Kinsella, Allan Pitman
    Pages 1-11

  3. Practical Rationality and A Recovery of Aristotle’s ‘Phronesis’ For the Professions

    • Frederick S. Ellett Jr.
    Pages 13-33

  4. Practitioner Reflection and Judgement as Phronesis

    • Elizabeth Anne Kinsella
    Pages 35-52

  5. Reflective Healthcare Practice

    • Arthur W. Frank
    Pages 53-60

  6. Cultivating Capacity

    • Kathryn Hibbert
    Pages 61-71

  7. Realising Practical Wisdom From the Pursuit of Wise Practice

    • Joy Higgs AM
    Pages 73-85

  8. Phronesis, Aporia, and Qualitative Research

    • Rob Macklin, Gail Whiteford
    Pages 87-100

  9. Phronesis and the Practice of Science

    • Farrukh Chishtie
    Pages 101-114

  10. Reclaiming Competence For Professional Phronesis

    • Derek Sellman
    Pages 115-130

  11. Professionalism and Professionalisation

    • Allan Pitman
    Pages 131-146

  12. Phronesis, Experience, and the Primacy of Praxis

    • Stephen Kemmis
    Pages 147-161

  13. Phronesis as Professional Knowledge

    • Elizabeth Anne Kinsella, Allan Pitman
    Pages 163-172

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 173-177
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About this book

Phronesis is the Aristotelian notion of practical wisdom. In this collected series, phronesis is explored as an alternate way of considering professional knowledge. In the present context dominated by technical rationalities and instrumentalist approaches, a re-examination of the concept of phronesis offers a fundamental re-visioning of the educational aims in professional schools and continuing professional education programs. This book originated from a conversation amongst an interdisciplinary group of scholars from education, health, philosophy, and sociology, who share concerns that something of fundamental importance – of moral signi?cance – is missing from the vision of what it means to be a professional. The contributors consider the ways in which phronesis offers a generative possibility for reconsidering the professional knowledge of practitioners. The question at the centre of this inquiry is: “If we take phronesis seriously as an organising framework for professional knowledge, what are the implications for professional education and practice?” A multiplicity of understandings emerge as to what is meant by phronesis and how it might be reinterpreted, understood, applied, and extended in a world radically different to that of the progenitor of the term, Aristotle. For those concerned with professional life this is a conversation not to be missed.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada

    Elizabeth Anne Kinsella, Allan Pitman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Phronesis as Professional Knowledge

  • Book Subtitle: Practical Wisdom in the Professions

  • Editors: Elizabeth Anne Kinsella, Allan Pitman

  • Series Title: Professional Practice and Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-731-8

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6091-731-8Published: 30 July 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 177

  • Topics: Education, general

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