Wisdom Curriculum: Learning for the Future

By João Canoquena PhD

In Wisdom Curriculum, veteran educator and curriculum designer João Canoquena argues that decades of reform have made schooling more measurable and less meaningful - trading the slow, embodied work of understanding for the abstraction of scores, rubrics, and performance metrics. Drawing on three decades of teaching and research across Australian and international education, Canoquena traces how this Age of Intellectualisation took hold, and offers a compelling alternative: a curriculum that measures growth through behaviour, not just product.

At its heart is HEDGE - a five-phase teaching sequence moving from Hook to Empowered Application - alongside the Wisdom Scale, the Intellectualisation Scale, and a full suite of diagnostic tools for shifting schools from control to trust. Organised across five interconnected learning domains and grounded in case studies from Australia, England, Finland, Singapore, and Kenya, this is both a philosophical reckoning with what schooling has become and a practical handbook for what it could be.

Part manifesto, part curriculum framework, part teacher's companion, Wisdom Curriculum is for every educator, school leader, and policymaker who suspects the point of learning was never the test - and is ready to teach, and lead, accordingly.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HH4NYJ2P
• ISBN13: 9798170567850
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 820 Pages
• Weight: 2.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"