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The United States is not the only nation facing these issues. As Darling-Hammond explains, “Nations around the world are reforming their school systems to meet these new demands;” they are “revising curriculum, instruction, and assessment to support the more complex knowledge and skills needed in the twenty-first century – skills needed for framing problems, seeking and organizing information and resources, and working strategically with others to manage and address dilemmas and create new products.”
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Notes
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Limitations of space preclude a discussion of the organizational and institutional conditions that shape organizational learning. For a fuller discussion of these influences, please see Honig (2008).
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Thanks to Tony Back for introducing us to this term.
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For example, Tiger Woods hired a coach to help him rebuild his swing (e.g., http://sportscenteraustin.blogs.com/the_view/2005/05/tiger_woods_why.html)
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Bransford, J. et al. (2010). Adaptive People and Adaptive Systems: Issues of Learning and Design. In: Hargreaves, A., Lieberman, A., Fullan, M., Hopkins, D. (eds) Second International Handbook of Educational Change. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2660-6_46
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