Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
We want to propose a conception of wisdom with a view to exploring what insights it can give us into some basic dimensions of teaching in contemporary higher education. We hope to show that this conception allows us, on the one hand, to see some crucial inadequacies of existing approaches to critical thinking, multi-culturalism, and global awareness or internationalism. On the other hand, we believe that it also gives us some insight into the existentially or spiritually meaningful dimensions of learning. In this way, it bridges the most contemporary and practical foci of teaching and its most fundamental and timeless concerns. In the later part of the paper, we shall explore some of the characteristics of this conception further through the teachings of some of the longstanding wisdom traditions, including what they say about teaching itself.
Recommended Citation
Barris, Jeremy and Jeffrey Ruff. “Thoughts on Wisdom and Its Relation to Critical Thinking, Multiculturalism, and Global Awareness,” Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis 31.1 (2011), 5-20. https://journal.viterbo.edu/index.php/atpp/article/view/1057/871
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The copy of record is available from the publisher at https://journal.viterbo.edu/index.php/atpp/issue/view/94. Copyright © 2011 by the author. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.