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My Reading Of Trilling And Hood ( 2001 ) And Curriculum 21

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Ours is a knowledge-creating civilization… Sustained knowledge advancement is seen as essential for social progress of all kinds and for the solution of societal problems. From this standpoint the fundamental task of education is to enculturate youth into this knowledge-creating civilization and to help them find a place in it. (Scardamalia, 2006)

Introduction
In such a short time, I have taken a very long personal journey. My reading of Trilling and Hood (2001) and Curriculum 21 started me on a trajectory of trying to understand how to improve education for “Knowledge Age” workers. I examined what global requirements might be for our graduating students in the future. This led me to a U.S. Department of Labor report called “What work requires of schools” (SCANS, 1991). The SCANS team, having examined cognitive science of the time, determined three major themes:
• Students do not need to learn basic skills before they learn problem-solving skills. The two go together. They are not sequential but mutually reinforcing.
Learning should be reoriented away from mere mastery of information and toward encouraging students to recognize and solve problems; and
• Real know-how, foundation and competencies, cannot be taught in isolation; students need practice in the application of these skills.
This represented an exciting prospect for me and I needed to understand what other research may have been done in this area. I began searching and sorting through hundreds of sources

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