Educating for Wisdom

Ferrari, Michel; Kim, Juensung J.

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“…Those who need wisdom most often seem least interested in acquiring it (Sternberg, 2019b). Schools need to develop wisdom (Ferrari & Kim, 2019; Sternberg & Hagen, 2019). There are mechanisms for doing so, and even an entire program devoted to it (Lipman et al, 1980).…”

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“…Although people start learning to be wise when they are young, the development of their wisdom continues throughout the lifespan (Glück, 2019). Moreover, children and adults both can be taught to be wiser through case studies and other methods designed to help people reflect on life problems and how they can be solved effectively (Ferrari & Kim, 2019; Sternberg & Hagen, 2019).…”

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What Is Wisdom? A Unified 6P Framework

Sternberg

Karami

2021

Review of General Psychology

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In this article, we propose a “6P” unified framework for understanding wisdom and accounts of wisdom: purpose, press, problems, persons, processes, products. We discuss wisdom in terms of these 6Ps, which expand and elaborate upon 4Ps originally suggested for models of creativity. We open the article with a discussion of the importance of wisdom. Then, we consider some past accounts of wisdom. We begin by considering explicit models of wisdom and then implicit models (folk theories) of wisdom, first Western and then non-Western. Next, we elaborate upon the 6P framework. We then consider how existing models differ from one another in terms of the 6P framework. Then, we discuss how the 6P framework elucidates the development of wisdom. Finally, we draw conclusions, in particular, that a complete model of wisdom ultimately would need to specify all of the 6Ps, but it is not clear that any current models do so.

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What Is Wisdom? A Unified 6P Framework

Sternberg

Karami

2021

Review of General Psychology

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“…Teaching for wisdom can and has been done successfully (Bruya & Ardelt, 2018). Teaching for wisdom in ordinary classrooms might mean (Ferrari & Kim, 2019; Sternberg & Hagen, 2019):1. Teaching students about the nature of wisdom, theories of wisdom, and empirical results regarding wisdom;2.…”

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What Is Wisdom? Sketch of a TOP (Tree of Philosophy) Theory

Sternberg

2023

Review of General Psychology

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This article proposes a sketch of a new theory of wisdom based on the tree of philosophy (TOP) model. It is argued that philosophy—love of wisdom—has developed branches over the millennia that reflect the different aspects of thought and action that need to be considered in a comprehensive theory of wisdom. Although there is not a full consensus on what these branches are, the TOP usually has as branches, at minimum, metaphysics—including epistemology and ontology—and ethics, logic, aesthetics, hermeneutics, and axiology. Each of these branches is considered, and its implications for a philosophically based theory of wisdom are considered. Whereas some other theories of wisdom attempt to synthesize recent psychological attempts to understand wisdom, the TOP theory attempts to synthesize the contribution of millennia of philosophical inquiry.

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“…The study of philosophical texts has a central place in many current suggestions about how to teach for wisdom (Bruya & Ardelt, 2018a, 2018bFerrari & Kim, 2019). But the nature of the text reflected upon may influence the type of wisdom gained: when the judgments, line readings, and commentaries in the Changes are read for This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

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“…Despite the relative success of research on wisdom, and the broad consensus on how to operationalize it (Bangen et al, 2013; Glück, 2018; Grossmann, Weststrate, et al, 2020; Jeste et al, 2010), there has been less consensus regarding methods for intentionally developing wisdom. Although training people to achieve greater distance from their own perspective has achieved some success in facilitating wiser reasoning (Grossmann, 2017), most attempts to develop wisdom in school and professional training have shown little evidence of meaningful progress (Ferrari & Kim, 2019).…”

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Foresight and wisdom: The case of the classic of changes.

Kim¹,

Feng²,

Ferrari³

2022

The Humanistic Psychologist

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Wisdom has remained an elusive topic of perennial interest to philosophers and theologians and more recently to psychologists and ethnographers. In constructing scientific theories of wisdom, we owe a great intellectual debt to received and long-debated philosophical and theological texts. As the psychology of wisdom becomes increasingly interested in the capacity of wise individuals for prognostication, we explore the importance of one such classical wisdom text in China, 易經, or the Classic of Changes. The Changes has historically been used for divination, philosophical reflection, and the personal development of wisdom. We argue that the historical engagement of the Changes exemplifies the emphasis on timely, optimal action in classical Chinese understandings of wisdom, since divination aims to help ascertain a course of action that will bring about an optimal outcome. Reflection on important texts is also integral to modern efforts to teach for wise problem solving. We discuss applications of both divination and reflection to developing wisdom as understood in modern psychology and their implications for research on wisdom.

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Educating for Wisdom

Cited by 20 publications

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What Is Wisdom? A Unified 6P Framework

What Is Wisdom? A Unified 6P Framework

What Is Wisdom? Sketch of a TOP (Tree of Philosophy) Theory

Foresight and wisdom: The case of the classic of changes.

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