There is widespread agreement that the art/science dichotomy obsolete; professional practice must accommodate both experience-based judgment and evidence-based tools. However, there little on what this reconciliation entails, partly because we lack a conceptualization of agency involved. What kind intellectual ability needed for translation research into practice? This article argues need new c...

Background Public service practitioners on all levels aim to solve increasingly complex policy problems by making use of different forms evidence. While there are many models knowledge mobilisation, not enough attention is paid the types that mobilised for public reform. Ward (2017) has returned Aristotle’s types; empirical, technical and practice wisdom, address this gap. Aims objectives This ...

Coinciding with the recent psychological attention paid to broad topic of wisdom, interest in intellectual virtue phronesis or practical wisdom has been burgeoning within pockets psychology, philosophy, professional ethics, and education. However, these discourses are undercut by frequently unrecognized tensions, lacunae, ambivalences, misapplications, paradoxes. While a attempt at conceptualiz...

The strategic challenge of how organizations can become more prepared for unexpected events has risen in importance in recent years. It has become increasingly clear that organizational leaders require not only knowledge and skills but also ethical values as they make preparations in response to potentially overwhelming risks. In this theoretical essay, we explore the concept of practical wisdo...

The schema produces derogatory implications in its practical domain in that working with the elderly is considered as something inferior as “Working with older people is seen as focusing on custodial activities that lack the “excitement” and status of other fields of social work practice” [3]. The schema and its associative labels have also given rise to a loss of voice for the elderly in that ...