Teaching for Wisdom in Early Childhood and Primary School Education

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Teaching for wisdom in the early years and primary schooling is both a timeless aspiration and a pressing contemporary need. This is an invaluable resource for teachers, teacher educators, and policymakers, providing strategies and insights that make wisdom teaching accessible, relevant, and transformative in classrooms worldwide.

Teaching for wisdom in the early years and primary schooling is both a timeless aspiration and a pressing contemporary need. This book brings together international voices to show how educators can nurture children's curiosity, ethical reflection, and resilience, moving beyond narrow measures of achievement toward deeper forms of learning.

Across three parts, the volume explores cultural wisdoms, teacher formation, and curricular traditions. Case studies range from Indigenous rights-based praxis in Australia and Latin America to Japanese teachers’ professional wisdom and Russian strategies for elementary schooling. Teacher formation is examined through emotional intelligence, relational pedagogy, and the role of joy and presence in classrooms, with insights from educators whose work spans the planet. Curricular pathways highlight Daoist approaches to intercultural competence in China, Buddhist pedagogy in Australia, and Samoan communal traditions, alongside chapters on the arts and poetic inquiry. Together, these contributions demonstrate how wisdom teaching is embedded in diverse cultural, philosophical, and pedagogical contexts, offering groundbreaking perspectives on how children can be guided toward empathy, creativity, and intercultural understanding.

This book is an invaluable resource for teachers,educators, and policymakers. It provides practical strategies and theoretical insights that make wisdom teaching accessible, relevant, and transformative in classrooms worldwide.

Its sister volume, Learning for Wisdom in Early Childhood and Primary School Education: Children’s Perspectives and Pathways, explores how wisdom can be cultivated through learning in the early years and primary schooling.

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Part I – Cultural Wisdoms in Education

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

2. Enacting Indigenous Wisdom in Education: Beyond Rhetoric to Rights-Based Praxis
Peter J. Anderson

3. Latin American Wisdom and the Rights of Indigenous Students
Angela Baeza Peña, Carla Tapia Parada

4. Japanese Teachers’ Wisdom
Chizu Sato

5. The Code of Wisdom in the Cultural Context of Russia: The Pedagogical Strategy for Developing Wisdom in Elementary School
Olga D. Masloboeva, Margarita G. Verbitskaya, Irina V. Dashkevich

Part II – Teacher Formation and Pedagogical Pathways
6. Wisdom and Spirit in Transformative Education
Rochelle Fogelgarn
7. The Roles of Teachers’ Transformative Emotional Intelligence on Young Children’s Social-Emotional Learning
Mee Ling Ting, Chorng Yuan Fung
8. Leading for Wisdom through Nurturing Joy and Powerful Presence: A Phenomenological Inquiry
Annette Rome
9. Relational Pedagogy as a Catalyst for Educational Wisdom: Insights from Swedish Lead Teachers
Carin Bäcknäs, Liisa Uusimaki

Part III – Curricular Pathways and Philosophical Traditions
10. Teaching with Daoist Wisdom: Water-like Pedagogical Pathways to Intercultural Competence in Contemporary Chinese Classrooms
Chunyan Zhang
11. The Australian Dharma Curriculum: Shaping Teaching for Wisdom through Buddhist Pedagogy and Experiential Practice
Yasika Liyanage, Tanya Wiggins, Andrea Furness, Emily Wilden, Rachel Taylor
12. Ancient Wisdoms, the Arts, and the Early Years
Catherine Oxworth, Bin Wu
13. Becoming an Enskiled Humanities Pedagogue: A Poetic Inquiry
Tanya Wiggins, Selena Prior, Josh Ambrosy, Alex Prins
14. E tautala aso – The days will speak
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