{"id":166,"date":"2012-09-28T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/halverson\/?page_id=166"},"modified":"2019-03-18T19:57:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T19:57:34","slug":"practical-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/halverson\/?page_id=166","title":{"rendered":"Practical Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aristotle&#8217;s <a title=\"Nicomachean Ethics, Bk 6\" href=\"http:\/\/classics.mit.edu\/Aristotle\/nicomachaen.6.vi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">idea of <em>phronesis<\/em><\/a>, or practical wisdom, describes how leaders design solutions for problems in the context of everyday practice. Much of my early work was to draw on ideas from distributed cognition, socio-cultural activity theory, and human-computer interaction translate\u00a0<em>phronesis<\/em> into a viable theory of practical expertise and a method for engaging in social science research. My thinking about practical wisdom also informed by writing about design and about education research.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Halverson, R. (2001).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/halverson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/12\/Halverson-Dissertation-copy.pdf\"><em>Representing <\/em>Phronesis<em>: Documenting instructional leadership practice in schools<\/em><\/a>. Dissertation submitted to the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Halverson, R. (2004) <a href=\"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/halverson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/09\/Halverson-phronesis-1202.pdf\">Accessing, documenting and communicating the <em>phronesis <\/em>of school leadership practice<\/a>. <em>American Journal of Education, 111(1), <\/em>90-122.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Halverson, R &amp; Halverson, E. (2011) <a href=\"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/halverson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/09\/110221-Halverson-Halverson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Education as design for learning: A model for integrating education inquiry across research traditions<\/a>. In C. F. Conrad &amp; R. C. Serlin (Eds). <em>Sage Handbook for Research in Education: Engaging Ideas and Enriching Inquiry <\/em>(2nd Ed.). Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Halverson, R. Blakesley, C &amp; Figuerido-Brown, R. (2011). <a href=\"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/halverson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/09\/031610-Video-Game-Design-as-a-Model-for-Professional-Learning.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video-game design as a model for professional learning<\/a>. In M. S. Khine (Ed.) <em>Learning to Play: Exploring the Future of Education with Video Games<\/em>. Peter Lang: New York. 9-28.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Halverson, R., and Clifford, M. (2006) <a href=\"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/halverson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2012\/09\/HalversonClifford-EAQ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evaluation in the wild: A distributed cognition perspective on teacher assessment<\/a>. <em>\u00a0Education Administration Quarterly<\/em> <em>42(4). <\/em>578-619.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aristotle&#8217;s idea of phronesis, or practical wisdom, describes how leaders design solutions for problems in the context of everyday practice. 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