They are bound by religious praxis, social connection, philanthropic causes. He has given an increasingly important place to praxis in theology, indicating that all theory must give rise to transformative praxis. The character of these reflections in Kasper’s 1962 article on Vatican I, written as a 29-year-old priest-theologian, has echoes in his 1999 article on the theology and praxis of the bishop’s office, written five years after becoming the bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
For future studies, the researchers suggest that an instrument be developed and validated to assess praxis facilitators and inhibitors in nursing practice. I initially developed this exploration for a non-integral pan-professional audience (with ‘integral’ deliberately positioned very much in the background, presentation-wise). I was attempting – implicitly – to acknowledge the often strong privileging of ‘practice’, and the comparative disparaging of ‘theory’, by practitioners, once we are ‘out of school’ and operating ‘in the real world’. I sought to support any serious interest in better integrating theory and practice, through a larger view of practice as praxis. I mobilized the notion of praxis to help better reconnect the personal and the professional – because too often, it seemed to me, we treat them as ‘poles’, to be kept apart.

It has been essentially self-leadership – an integral communing with my emerging professional-educator self. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word ‘praxis.’ Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. The Praxis II exam is used in many states, as is the original Praxis exam. The word praxis is used by English speaking academics, sometimes even spoken aloud by them. Religion is certainly one of the topics that the word praxis is most commonly used in, so in the right context, the term religious praxis is, as far as I am concerned, perfectly proper to use.
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The interviews were recorded with the permission of the interviewee and then typed and transcribed. I now find that a praxis perspective honours the personal, in service beyond myself; it embodies a dignified autonomy. After all, values and beliefs are my own; I own them; they inscribe, and are inscribed in, my own ‘self’. A sense of praxis leads me to honour and protect my ‘source’, to stay in touch with it, to integrate from that core place in me.
At a time when teacher education is under scrutiny there is an imperative to focus on appropriate and embedded pedagogical approaches if teacher education is to produce critical and well prepared teachers. The proposed praxis pedagogy offers a powerful and insightful way forward. While political pressures and public debate suggest that raising teacher standards is important (Merlino, 2016; Singh et al., 2011) this study presents a method for consideration.
Thus, ultimately, making something of one’s-self, individually and collectively. When our subjective values and beliefs are openly and explicitly engaged, new dimensions and new perspectives are brought into play, as core elements in our professing. In essence, for myself, praxis-making involves making an object of a subject, namely, my whole Self – as a whole person, i.e. implicating body, mind, soul and spirit (think of this as being more ‘comprehensive’).
Humanist learning theories are concerned with the human potential for growth. Humans believe that people are inherently good and that behavior is the result of choice. In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt argues that Western philosophy too often has focused on the contemplative life (vita contemplativa) and has neglected the active life (vita activa). For researchers, praxis emphasises the important of using research and theory to create change, and reflecting on whose interests are served by current theory and research. For practitioners, praxis emphasises the importance of critically reflecting on practice, ensuring that practice is grounded in theory and ensuring that practice contributes to how we understand theory and the context in which we operate.
All three elements are mobilized to achieve praxis, but our personal values and beliefs, captured in our ‘prof-essence’, seem to me to merit a central/pole positioning – transcending and integrative. Praxis is given a specific agenda and political program in the Frankfurt School’s CT. CT erases the distinction between theory and praxis by showing how one leads to and informs the other. The social transformation sought by praxis is not only informed by critical reflection (“theory”) but also by questions of justice and emancipation (social or collective action). Based on the findings of the present study, the researchers suggest that praxis and its facilitators, especially social justice, be included in undergraduate, postgraduate and in-service training curricula.

Questioning, describing, explaining, connecting, case writing and bringing values, lived experience, moral commitment to improving the human condition and imagining new perspectives are some practices that demonstrate what teacher education requires. For us praxis pedagogy is defined as, student centred, critical thinking, which includes an ethical perspective and with a future aim of improving student outcomes. It is a complex process that captures the unique experience of the preservice teacher (Burridge, Carpenter, Cherednichenko, & Kruger, 2010) which is often underrepresented in ITE experience for those studying to become a teacher (Biggs & Tang, 2007; Tang, 2003).
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word praxis. If you are the site owner, please log into your WordPress.com account for more information. I think the usage in that context is overdone, and practice would be more appropriate. However, I have heard it used and it is valid in reasonably high-brow discussions.

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But for now my main concern begins with ‘me’, and my praxis – my values basis, my values-base. It is notable that the abstract nature of praxis caused some problems for the nurses to perceive and answer the questions. Therefore, some more detailed explanations were provided to clarify the related concepts. This vibrant collection of essays, photo works, and drawing projects explores the physical problems of our built environment with a view to bridging the perceived divide between theory and practice in architectural discourse.

Aristotle and Arendt would likely agree that what motivates praxis is the best or most virtuous form of motivation because it allows people to enact their freedom and begin anew. When we partake in an action simply because we want to partake in that action, we are likely to feel more fulfilled by it. According to the overjustification effect, when we are offered an external reward (e.g., money or candy) for completing a task, we are less likely to find intrinsic motivation to complete the task. For example, imagine that you used to enjoy painting (which allows you to be creative and to begin something new) for the enjoyment of the activity itself. Now, you are engaging in poiesis; you paint to produce something which you can sell.
With this map, preservice teachers contemplated new space for reflecting on praxis with university peers, colleagues and internalising these ideas through processes of intersubjectivity (Biesta, 1998; Mead, 1939) and reflexive practices. I invite you to position yourself at your integral/professional interface, and notice what comes up for you as you join me in this exploration. I hope to convey some processing of my experience so far, pursuing an integral approach to the education of professionals-in-the-making, beginning with an exploration of praxis – as an advance on practice – as a key distinction.
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Based on my own experience I would encourage you to think of your praxis as the foundational element of your professional-self design; it has to do with what you want to ‘make’ of yourself, as a professional. It is your creation, your design, your story – the story you tell the future about what you ‘profess’, in response to the kinds of questions we ask in Sidebars 1, 2 and 3. Cognitivism is an education theory that information is more likely acquired, retained, and retrieved for future use if it is learner-constructed, relevant, and built upon prior knowledge.
Their characteristics are presented in table 1 and facilitators and barriers of praxis in nursing practice are shown in table 2. Therefore, nursing literature acknowledges the importance of praxis in nursing practice, but few studies are related to its factors in nursing practice. Hence, the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the factors involved in praxis in the nursing practice. Praxis’ in-person convenings include our annual national conference, Roots & Remedies, and Learning Circles. Praxis works with our basebuilding partners to design the convenings in a reflective manner, honors lived experience and community wisdom, builds trusted relationships and centers actionable practice. Praxis in-person events bring together social justice activists, basebuilding grassroots organizers, and progressive networks to share space as we learn from one another.
According to Arendt, action in a praxis sense is the highest realization of vita activa. That is because it demonstrates both the freedom and plurality of humans. She writes in The Human Condition, “men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world”.5 Part of the condition of being human is to exist in a world of humans that are free. Praxis, she theorized, helps affirm our reality and to actualize our capacity for freedom.4 Freedom is something that is innate in all of humans, she claimed, and she defined it as the capacity to begin something anew – the capacity to, at our own will, begin an action. The Praxis subject tests are generally accepted to be more challenging than the Praxis Core tests because the tests are designed to ensure that candidates entering teaching have the general and subject-specific skills that K-12 educators need to be successful.
The Signature Pedagogies have been critical in determining the impact of professional experience and the process of linking theory and practice. The underlying shift to the model of signature pedagogies indicated has relied on a dialogic approach to learning and knowledge (Freire, 1989) and experiences from classrooms of preservice teachers (Dewey, 1938). The opportunity of envisaging ‘transformative’ curriculum, approaches and outcomes for students (Arnold et al., 2012; Arnold et al., 2014; Hooley, 2013; Kalantzis, 2006) underpins the conversations when presenting cases and the portfolio. It is during conversations that practice is described, explained, theorised and re-imagined. Portfolios based on signature pedagogies are developed by the preservice teachers as a basis for the praxis to encompass ideas of pedagogical perspectives in terms of current and future professional engagement.

Many times, I saw a nurse sitting in the station for a couple of hours, while nervous, and when the patient calls her, the nurse will not answer or answer the patient back angrily…”. Prejudice is the nurse’s prior mentality towards the patient, which can include illness-related mentalities, previously known patient-related mentalities, and other mentalities toward patients. Another subcategory of effective nurse-patient communication is identification with patients and their families. Praxis designs, co-develops, and facilitates trainings using principles of popular education with a focus on action.
I distinguish professionals – at their base, in their core – by their praxis and how they presence their praxis-making. Presencing becomes the ground-work for a series of ‘makings’; it especially features the more ‘personal’ territory, dominated by sense-making. In this way then, those with a praxis may gain the focus that leads to articulating a common inter-personal ‘ethos’ (akin to a credo), featuring meaning-making. And those with an ethos can then attempt acts of poiesis – a form of trans-personal poetry-in-action – on an epic scale; possibly the most evolved form of place-making.