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This book explores exemplary practice-based education, particularly from the perspective of practitioners entering the world of practice. In this chapter we step through and then beyond professional entry education and the preparation of beginning practitioners to examine the way lifelong practice-based education can enable individuals to become wise practitioners and help educators and mentors to foster practice wisdom in their students and colleagues. We believe that wisdom has been overlooked and undervalued within higher education for some time. Within the university wisdom has lost territory to knowledge and, because of its nature as individualistic, situational and personal, it has been in the “too hard basket” with university educators.
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Gates, A., Higgs, J. (2013). Realising Wise Practitioners. In: Higgs, J., Sheehan, D., Currens, J.B., Letts, W., Jensen, G.M. (eds) Realising Exemplary Practice-Based Education. Practice, Education, Work and Society, vol 7. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-188-7_5
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