The chapters in this volume are all devoted to a single question: Can wisdom be taught, or at least fostered? They span many different traditions and times, which generates both problems and opportunities. The most obvious problem is that of translation. As Curnow points out in the opening chapter, the word ‘wisdom’ is used to translate a variety of terms from antiquity that have only a partial overlap with modern work. It is interesting to consider that the Egyptian word ‘seboyet’ translates as either wisdom or instruction. The same is true of terms from Buddhism or Confucianism, or even the Ancient Greek tradition acknowledged as a source of most current views of wisdom in the West; all the terms drawn from other languages and traditions have only partially overlapping meaning. With this in mind, each chapter can be read independently of the others. However, we have also arranged them in an order that re?ects common themes that emerge despite this diversity. We have not arranged them by geographical region, or historical time, but rather by the sort of educational strategy they advocate to foster wisdom. The ?rst chapter by Curnow provides a basic overview of approaches to teaching for wisdom in the West. This is already a very ambitious undertaking, spanning ancient

Egypt and Mespotamia to the renaissance and the dawnofthemodemworld, where the term wisdom has fallen largely out of fashion until very recently.

• Education
• George Berkeley
• Immanuel Kant
• Islam
• Learning Sciences
• Personeal Transformation
• Plato
• Religion
• Spiritual Exercises
• Wisdom
• character
• development
• idea
• knowledge
• mind

• Introduction
• Fostering Wisdom: A Psychological Perspective
• Teaching for Wisdom through History: Infusing Wise Thinking Skills in the School Curriculum
• The Cultivation of Character Strengths
• Growing Wisdom in Knowledge Building Communities
• Master Zhu’s Wisdom
• Wisdom Teaching in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism
• Beginner’s Mind: Paths to the Wisdom that is not Learned
• Ascending to Wisdom: A Christian Pedagogy
• The Wisdom of Plato’s Phaedo
• Can Wisdom Be Taught? Kant, Sage Philosophy, and Ethnographic Reflections from the Swahili Coast

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

Michel Ferrari

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Georges Potworowski

Book Title：Teaching for Wisdom

Book Subtitle：Cross-cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom

Authors：Michel Ferrari, Georges Potworowski

DOI：https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6532-3

eBook Packages：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

Edition Number：1

Number of Pages：XII, 234

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Topics:Epistemology, Sociology of Education, Philosophy of Education, International and Comparative Education, Pedagogic Psychology, Philosophy of Mind