Search results for "phronesis"
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Medicine among métis, phrónesis and téchne
2010
Cosi come si presenta la pillola del giorno dopo puo essere utilizzata in modo efficace fino a 72 ore dopo il rapporto sessuale non protetto. Tuttavia, in alcuni casi, questo periodo puo essere troppo breve. Per tale motivo, e stata commercializzata per la prima volta una pillola, l’acetato ulipristal (Ellaone), per la contraccezione d’emergenza post-coitale fino a 120 ore (5 giorni) dopo i rapporti sessuali non protetti o nel caso di insuccesso del contraccettivo. Un aspetto importante da considerare nella valutazione etica di un farmaco usato per la contraccezione d’emergenza e il suo meccanismo d’azione, in quanto tale valutazione sara molto diversa se il farmaco agisce inibendo o ritard…
Professional expertise, integrative thinking, wisdom, and phronēsis
2020
This chapter examines adult thinking from the perspective of professional expertise and phronēsis, that is, practical wisdom. It first describes differences between experts and novices, and presents three conceptualisations of the development of expertise. This is followed by an analysis of the form of adult thinking referred to as integrative thinking, and phronēsis. The relationship of these two with expertise is examined. The analysis shows that professional expertise requires holistic thinking involving the ability to integrate or conciliate various and even conflicting perspectives in order to find new solutions to problems. Furthermore, the role of emotions and ethical reflection is e…
Rethinking Music Practise-Sessions beyond Poiesis and Praxis - Towards Practising Democracy
2022
How can the (seemingly isolated) process of practising a musical instrument in the context of practice sessions be seen as enabling students to develop skills “that are needed to keep democracies alive’ (Nussbaum, 2010, p. 2). How can we encourage this further? The approach is to explore the various potentials of the practise session to be something more than mere training. An exploration that can be instrumentally fostered in a study environment (formal or informal) through a practical pedagogical approach, not to reach a specific end — i.e. defined learning outcomes — but to result in the student transcending the professional competence acquisition situation to gai…
What is (good) practitioner research?
2016
This special issue recognizes EAPRIL as being a platform for practitioner and practice-based research and by organizing the 10th annual conference for practitioner research on improving learning in education and professional practice. Papers in this conference and in this special issue are rooted in practice-based research or practitioner research. They reflect the popularity of practitioner research in vocational teacher education and in universities of applied sciences. Reason enough for the authors of the current paper to reflect on the question: “What is practitioner research?” And, more importantly what makes good practitioner research? Reviews show that people use broad interpretation…
Examining how global citizenship education is prefigured in the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence
2021
This study uses the Aristotelian notion of phronesis as a critical lens for examining how global citizenship education is prefigured in the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence. Based on a content analysis of key curriculum documentation, the findings outline the way in which techne and episteme with their associated ways of knowing and acting dominate the curriculum. Nevertheless, the hints of phronesis indicate the potential for developing a more critical form of global citizenship education that prefigures praxis that wisely pursues that which is good for humankind and individual flourishing. This article contributes to the notion of ‘planetary phronesis’ as a critical concept for the furt…