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Weaving Skill Ropes: Using Metaphor to Enhance Understanding of Skills and Learning

This report presents "Weaving Skill Ropes" as an explanatory metaphor that helps people reason about the concepts of skills and learning.
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March 1, 2013
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This report presents “Weaving Skill Ropes” as an explanatory metaphor that helps people reason about the concepts of skills and learning: what skills children need, how these skills are learned, and how they are inter-related. The report describes the iterative research process that produced the “Weaving Skill Ropes” explanatory metaphor and provides a guide on how to use this communications tool.

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Education
Countries
United States

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