Transforming Education in Practice: In Search of a Community of Phronimos

The book inspires educational practitioners to identify professional features and turn them into sources for developing wise judgment and eliciting creative acts in teaching, lesson planning, course design, collaboration, and knowledge excavation to shape policy decision and planning. It also offers insights for those who conceive the world and their practice from a positivist tradition and seeks a paradigm shift in understanding their practice. Educators and teacher educators will find the ideas more promising in escalating the awareness of teachers of the next generation towards what is 'good' in terms of their professional attitude and actual performance.

Format: Hardback
Length: 210 pages
Publication date: 10 December 2021
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This book offers valuable insights for educational practitioners, particularly those in frontline service roles, to inform leadership and policy decisions. It empowers them to identify professional features and transform them into sources for developing wise judgment and creative acts in teaching, lesson planning, course design, collaboration, and knowledge excavation. For those accustomed to a positivist tradition, the book's insights can be particularly illuminating, offering a paradigm shift in understanding their practice. Additionally, educators and teacher educators will find the ideas in this book particularly promising in raising the awareness of teachers of the next generation regarding what constitutes "good" (phronesis) in terms of their professional attitude and actual performance (informed by both techne and episteme) in their respective settings.

Weight: 506g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811668708
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021