Learning for Wisdom in Early Childhood and Primary School Education

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This book explores how wisdom can be cultivated through learning in the early years and primary schooling. It is designed for educators, researchers, and general readers seeking fresh ways to enrich early years and primary education. It offers insights into how early years and primary education can be a foundation for lifelong flourishing.

This book explores how wisdom can be cultivated through learning in the early years and primary schooling. It brings together diverse traditions and practices, showing how children’s encounters with nature, stories, and community can nurture curiosity, resilience, and ethical awareness, resonating across cultures and generations.

The chapters weave together case studies and approaches that highlight the richness of learning for wisdom. Philosophical inquiry into wisdom can develop a child’s social, imaginative, cogitative, cognitive, intellectual, moral, emotional, and spiritual skills – helping to bring their sense (and sensitivity) of wisdom to life in practice. Forest-based education demonstrates how outdoor environments foster imagination and ecological responsibility. Bibliotherapy illustrates the power of stories to support emotional growth and empathy. Social-emotional learning and whole school initiatives show how communities can embed wisdom into everyday practice. Perspectives from Australian Indigenous traditions emphasise relationality and respect, while Chinese approaches highlight continuity, moral formation, and dialogue. Together, these examples span geographical and temporal contexts, offering readers a tapestry of methods that connect ancient insights with contemporary classrooms, and practical strategies like the Wisdom Wheel.

Accessible and inspiring, this collection is designed for educators, researchers, and general readers seeking fresh ways to enrich early years and primary education. By weaving together diverse traditions and practices, it offers groundbreaking insights into how learning can cultivate wisdom – transforming early years and primary education into a foundation for lifelong flourishing.

Its sister volume, Teaching for Wisdom in Early Childhood and Primary School Education: Educators’ Practices and Pedagogies, demonstrates how educators can nurture children's curiosity, ethical reflection, and resilience in the early years and primary schooling.

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Part I – Framing Wisdom as a Learner’s Journey

1 Opening Framing of Learning for Wisdom in the Primary and Early Years by Kristina Turner, Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley, Peter J Anderson, Zane M. Diamond

2 Sketching the contours of wisdom in education for full-spectrum flourishing by Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley

Part II – Emergent Wisdom in Early Childhood

3 Reconsidering and reconfiguring the wisdom of infants and toddlers: Following their lead by Tracy Young and Melanie Turkopp

4 Forest pre-primary education as a learning environment for wisdom by Terhi Ek, Anu Kuukka & Eeva K. Kallio

Part III – Stories, Play, and Experiential Pathways

5 Fostering children’s wisdom through the shared reading of narratives and developmental bibliotherapy by Siobhan O’Brien

6 Cultivating Wisdom in Young Minds through Social-emotional Learning, by Xiaoyan Wang

7 The Wisdom Wheel – A Pedagogical Strategy for Developing Wisdom by Kate Bartholomeusz, Karryn Exner & Tracey Hallam

Part IV – Emotions, Relationships, and Reflective Growth

8 Wisdom through moral emotion: how might it develop in primary education? by Lorna Jutton

9 Samoan wisdom in the classroom to support student learning by Kuinileti Lauina Viliamu and Epenesa Esera

10 Cultivating Wisdom in School and Educational Psychology by Wren Howe

Part V – Learners and Guides in Dialogue

11 Teaching and Learning for Wisdom in Initial Teacher Education by Kristina Turner

12 Listening to the wisdom of students: A whole of school approach to wellbeing by Michelle Andrews Luke

Part VI – Living Wisely—Toward Whole-Person Growth

13 The Monotheistic Model of Wisdom Development: Simultaneous Flourishing in Educators and Learners by Ehsan Namazi and Samaneh Asadi

14 Spirals of Wisdom: Designing Pedagogies from Lived Experience and Cultural Traditions by Hongzhi Zhang & Zane M. Diamond