Shaping Wise Futures: A Shared Responsibility

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50553-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 867 g

Reihe: Practice Futures

We are poised at a crossroads between a past that is outgrown and a future we must choose. This book examines the multiple ways that wisdom, grounded in life experience, science and theoretical knowledge, can contribute to positive and sustainable local and global futures. The authors in this book have brought their thinking to various aspects of this existential challenge using the lenses of Wisdom and Wise Practice, in an effort to explore ideas by which society might make choices in planning and acting for a wiser future.

Wisdom practices have developed over millennia to assist people in approaching and managing life experiences and difficulties. While such practices were originally considered the purview of academic and religious scholars; at this important time in history, it must become everyone’s responsibility to wisely look ahead if we are to achieve a sustainable future for society.

The authors of this book comprise international future-oriented leaders, scholars, practitioners, community members and commentators with a commitment to social justice, human service and development. The book explores the place of wisdom and wise living practices alongside other ways of knowing and acting, for shaping positive futures for people and the world we inhabit. The chapters examine major challenges across political, physical and social life worlds, aiming to promote a quantum shift in discourse and decision making to address current and future challenges.

The four parts of the book follow forward thinking ideas of wise professional practice:

• Facing future challenges,

• Exploring practice pathways,

• Examining options and

• Future possibilities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Higgs, Joy

Orrell, Janice

Tasker, Diane

Patton, Narelle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Affektive, soziale und ethische Ziele in der Erziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Joy Higgs and Diane Tasker

Acknowledgement

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

PART 1: Facing Future Challenges

Introduction to Part 1

1 Valuing Wise Futures

Joy Higgs

2 Building a Wise and Sustainable Future: Moral Purpose and Challenged Assumptions

Geoff Scott

3 Linking Science, Spirituality, Ethics and Philosophy in Creating Wise Futures

Narelle Patton

4 Social Movements within the Australian Context for Wiser Futures

Anne Fitzgerald and Diane Tasker

5 Practice Dimensions and Drivers Shaping Wise Futures

Joy Higgs

PART 2: Exploring Practice Pathways

Introduction to Part 2

6 Restoring the Balance: Wisdom and the Spirit of the Age

John Wattis, Melanie Rogers, Stephen Curran and Gulnar Ali

7 Wisdom and Spirituality

Norman Habel

8 Professional Practice and Knowledgeable Action in Turbulent Times: Rediscovering Mètis

Peter Goodyear

PART 3: Examining Options

Introduction to Part 3

9 Living Practices: Moving from the Past towards a Wiser Future

Tania De Bortoli and Diane Tasker

10 Future Oriented Practice Spaces: Creating Socially and Environmentally Responsible Workplaces

Margot Cairnes and Rosemary Leonard

11 Realising Positive Futures Where There Appears to Be Little Hope

Janice Orrell and Anjali Habel-Orrell

12 Yarning and Wisdom

Simon Munro and Diane Tasker

13 Recognising the Practical Wisdom of People from Refugee Communities

Jeanette Lawrence, Mardi Stowe and Giovanna Citta

14 Practical Wisdom of Shaping Futures for Communities at the Margins of Society: Collaborative Development and Evaluation of Community Programs

Agnes Dodds, Ida Kaplan and Jeanette Lawrence

PART 4: Future Possibilities
Introduction to Part 4

15 Leadership in Uncertain Futures

David Giles

16 Wisdom and the University: Two Rival Modes – and a Resolution of Sorts

Ronald Barnett

17 Towards Practice Wisdom in Politics: Developing a Leadership Framework through Dispute Resolution Values and Skills

Rachael Field and Laurence Boulle

18 Carving out New Spaces for Journalists and Political Leaders to Make Better Nations

Janice Orrell and Lauren Novak

19 Wise Futures in Ageing Societies

Janice Orrell and Lilly Xiao

20 Young People Shaping Wise Futures

Skye Tasker and Philippa Collin

21 The Essential Roles of Ethics, Humanity and Social Justice in Any Future Worth Living

Andrew Dutney

Über Autor(innen)

Joy Higgs Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Janice Orrell Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Diane Tasker Ph.D., and Narelle Patton Ph.D., Associate Professor, have researched and published widely in the fields of Education for Practice and Wisdom of Experience