Daniel Goleman has gathered related information about effectiveness in working in the world outside of education and published this in his books on Emotional Intellegence and Working with Emotional Intellegence. Instead of IQ, he proposes an EQ with all the soft issues which are not handled very well in most learning environments. A research firm has studied the demand for knowledge and finds that it is strongest in the professional arenas and drops precipitously as one moves towards management and, of course, for the lesser skilled areas. Thus, I still contend that it is old wine in new bottles. But maybe these epistemalogical recastings of metaphors will create some new insghts.
Perception plays a big roll.
I remember when this list first started, there was a large focus on the design of learning systems.