Preliminary Material / Elizabeth Anne Kinsella and Allan Pitman -- Engaging Phronesis in Professional Practice and Education / Elizabeth Anne Kinsella and Allan Pitman -- Practical Rationality and a Recovery of Aristotle’s ‘Phronesis’ for the Professions / Frederick S. Ellett Jr. -- Practitioner Reflection and Judgement as Phronesis: / Elizabeth Anne Kinsella -- Reflective Healthcare Practice / Arthur W. Frank -- Cultivating Capacity: / Kathryn Hibbert -- Realising Practical Wisdom from the Pursuit of Wise Practice / Joy Higgs AM PhD -- Phronesis, Aporia, and Qualitative Research / Rob Macklin and Gail Whiteford Pro Vice Chancellor (Social Inclusion) -- Phronesis and the Practice of Science / Farrukh Chishtie -- Reclaiming Competence for Professional Phronesis / Derek Sellman -- Professionalism and Professionalisation: / Allan Pitman -- Phronēsis, Experience, and the Primacy of Praxis / Stephen Kemmis -- Phronesis as Professional Knowledge: / Elizabeth Anne Kinsella and Allan Pitman -- Notes on Contributors / Elizabeth Anne Kinsella and Allan Pitman -- Index / Elizabeth Anne Kinsella and Allan Pitman.

Phronesis is the Aristotelian notion of practical wisdom. In this collected series, phronesis is explored as an alternate way of considering professional knowledge. In the present context dominated by technical rationalities and instrumentalist approaches, a re-examination of the concept of phronesis offers a fundamental re-visioning of the educational aims in professional schools and continuing professional education programs. This book originated from a conversation amongst an interdisciplinary group of scholars from education, health, philosophy, and sociology, who share concerns that something of fundamental importance - of moral significance—is missing from the vision of what it means to be a professional. The contributors consider the ways in which phronesis offers a generative possibility for reconsidering the professional knowledge of practitioners. The question at the centre of this inquiry is: “If we take phronesis seriously as an organising framework for professional knowledge, what are the implications for professional education and practice?” A multiplicity of understandings emerge as to what is meant by phronesis and how it might be reinterpreted, understood, applied, and extended in a world radically different to that of the progenitor of the term, Aristotle. For those concerned with professional life this is a conversation not to be missed.

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