Teaching Students to Make Wise Judgments: The "Teaching for Wisdom" Program

Positive Psychology in Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 181-196

  Reznitskaya, Alina ^a   Sternberg, Robert J ^b  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance theory of wisdom; Interpersonal interests; Student teaching; Teaching for wisdom; Wise judgments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954222712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470939338.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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