Professor Zane Diamond: - How do we develop well informed and wise citizens?

In this podcast Professor Zane Diamond from Perth, Western Australia suggest how Wisdom education in contrast to the current knowledge accumulation is a way forward for educators helping develop well informed and wise citizens worldwide.

Hear her talk about the value of her personal learning about how people across the world are translating Wisdom from their own frame of reference and contexts. She shares her personal reflections noting how within Australian Indigenous people there lies a deep sense of relationality, or how in the Thai context and drawing from Buddhism there is an expectation to act in a morally manner.

Her research has examined the translation of Buddhist ideas into education practices in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, China, and Japan over centuries and the most recent migration of Buddhist and Dharmic ideas to countries such as Australia.

She shares the purpose of bringing together educators and researchers from different parts of our world, sharing how they are implementing wisdom in their respective practices. The project has resulted in two forthcoming Volumes, Teaching for Wisdom and Learning for Wisdom, both published by Routledge, and available later this year.

Some References:

Anderson, P., Diamond, Z. M., Pham, T., Baeza Peña, A., Tapia, C., Blue, L., Saward, M., Hurley, A., Pecar, K., Kelly, A., Forbes, O., Goerke, V., Diamond, J., Cathcart, A., Sato, C., Maeda, K., Fox, R., & Howe, W. D. W. (2025). Indigenous rights-based approaches to decolonising research methodologies in settler colonial contexts. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 10, Article 1553208. https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2025.1553208

Anderson, P. J., Howe, W. DW., Fox, R. A., & Diamond, Z. M. (2024). Adopting an Indigenous rights-based approach to working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students: repositioning school psychology to address Competency 8. Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 34(4), 372-387. https://doi.org/10.1177/20556365241300377

Zeng, S. A., Yip, S. Y., Ji, G. X., Hou, Y., Zhang, H., Chan, P. W. K., Diamond, Z., & Burke, G. (2024). Comparative analysis of planning with community resources across learning areas in the Australian Curriculum: impacts, strategies, and challenges. International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 23(2), 124-140. https://doi.org/10.70830/iejcp.2302.20347

Yip, S. Y., Saito, E., & Diamond, Z. M. (2024). Professional identity and agency in immigrant teachers’ professional transition to work in Australia. The Australian Educational Researcher, 51, 213-230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00600-w