This finding has significant implications as educators look for ways to design
curricula for the 21st century. When learning is characterized by inquiring, questioning,
thinking, organizing and articulating—and when each of these is characterized as
inquiring into something in the ways proper to living disciplines of knowledge—then
students require the capacities and space to explore, challenge, analyze, critique and
create always and necessarily within a field of knowledge that helps cultivate those
capacities and helps students and teachers alike learn their way around living
landscapes of knowing.
Along with this change in how we understand learning and curriculum, a whole array
of related educational initiatives will need reconsideration:
1. Assessment
2. Resources
3. Professional Development
4. Teacher Education
5. School and District Leadership
6. Education Policy
Clearly each one of these has been affected by the legacy of Taylorism and will need to
be rethought in ways that uproot this legacy.