Teaching for Wisdom Cross-cultural Perspectives on Fostering Wisdom /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ferrari, Michel (Editor), Potworowski, Georges (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Philosophy of mind.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Educational psychology.; Sociology of Education.; Philosophy of Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Pedagogic Psychology.; Philosophy of Mind.

Wisdom is valued as an ideal aim of personal development around the world. But we rarely see how wisdom is understood in different religious and philosophical traditions and different scientific disciplines, and more particularly how wisdom is taught. The emphasis of the book is on whether wisdom ca...