Can wisdom be fostered: Time to test the model of wisdom

The 'To be, or not to be' Speech: Evidence, Conventional Wisdom, and the Editing of Hamlet

The Rationality of Educating for Wisdom STANOVICH EDUCATING FOR WISDOM

Sternberg’s call for an educational focus on teaching wisdom can be viewed as part of a nascent trend to reorient educational psychology away from exclusive focus on the so-called algorithmic level of analysis. The thrust of his research program on wisdom, like those emphasizing rationality as a critical construct in educational psychology, is on aspects of cognition heretofore backgrounded: th...

From Knowledge to Wisdom

In this paper from the Xiangshang Forum 2006 we propose the Wisdom project, an international network initiative on developing the next generation of management and entrepreneurial systems based on knowledge and wisdom rather than data and information. This is a major challenge especially for China which must aspire to become wise and ethical rather than just efficient or effective. Major topics...

The wisdom of storks.

© www.sarawickham.com This article first published 2005 Practising Midwife 8(6):33. Republished with permission for personal use only. Page numbers do not correspond to the original. Please do not reproduce/reprint without prior permission, thank you. The stork is well loved as an image associated with birth and midwives; a good number of midwifery practices in the English-speaking world featur...

Wisdom of The Crowd

This paper studies a market for new projects with endogenous information acquisition by experts (venture capitalists). It nds that the crowd-like behavior of experts is characteristic of investments in new elds where prospects of new projects are unknown but correlated and experts independently collect small bits of information: each expert acquires a signal about a project and invests when the...