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Wisdom, Complexity, And Adult Education: Emerging Theory And Meanings For Practice, Ann L. Swartz, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
Wisdom, Complexity, And Adult Education: Emerging Theory And Meanings For Practice, Ann L. Swartz, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper discusses various conceptions of wisdom in order to foster theory development of what it means to access and act with wisdom, as well as to educate adults in a way that fosters wisdom in a complex world. Keywords: wisdom, complexity science, and spirituality.
Spiritual Pilgrimage As Metaphor And Movement In Adult Learning: The Transformative Journey Toward Wisdom, Perdeta L. Bush, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
Spiritual Pilgrimage As Metaphor And Movement In Adult Learning: The Transformative Journey Toward Wisdom, Perdeta L. Bush, Elizabeth J. Tisdell
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper explores the notion of spiritual pilgrimage in the lives of a multicultural group of adult educators who have been participants in a longitudinal study of their spiritual development, and to some extent how it connects to our own stories as educators and researchers
The Relationships Among Cognitive, Spiritual, And Wisdom Development In Adults, Mary Clare Smith
The Relationships Among Cognitive, Spiritual, And Wisdom Development In Adults, Mary Clare Smith
ETD Archive
This study explored whether (1) adult cognitive development correlates with spiritual development, (2) wisdom development mediates the relationship, and (3) age, gender, education level, socioeconomic status, or religious denomination are associated with level of cognitive, wisdom, or spiritual development. University students and alumni (N = 134) completed a demographic questionnaire, the Model of Hierarchical Complexity Helper-Person Problem (Commons & Pekkar, 2004), the Spiritual Assessment Inventory (Hall & Edwards, 1996, 2002), and the Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (Webster, 2003). This study hypothesized that wisdom, understood to derive from both personality qualities and life experience, mediates the influence of cognitive development on spiritual. …
Leading Deeply: A Heroic Journey Toward Wisdom And Transformation, Richard Warm
Leading Deeply: A Heroic Journey Toward Wisdom And Transformation, Richard Warm
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
This dissertation will explore leadership as a mytho-poetic transformational journey toward self-knowledge, authenticity, and ultimately wisdom; the power to make meaning and give something back to the world in which we live; and the necessity of transformation. I view leadership as a transformative process and a transformational responsibility. As leaders we must undergo our own transformation in order to lead change on a larger scale. The dissertation will be both philosophical and theoretical, exploring how the threads of the hero’s journey, transformation, wisdom, and leadership intertwine. It will also examine the role of education in this process. Education does not …