The Importance Of Migration To Education In The United States

Globalization, that is, the socioeconomic and technological unification of the globe is promoting the world that is increasing in diversity and complexity. Local problems in the 21st century, due to the ever-growing interconnectedness and interdependency of the world, are no longer isolated ones, but they are global issues, therefore, they need global solutions. For instance, migration is a global issue but affects locally the United States. The U.S land inhabits a multitude of cultures and diversity that with the appropriate framework of understanding can reframe the issue of migration as an opportunity to realize that there is incredible value in the overlapping of cultures with whom citizens coexists to better understand themselves. Understanding …show more content…
Students with this kind of curriculums develop projects, very similar to the one created by Boyan Slat. However, they will be guided by educators who will encourage them to ask questions that only can be answered through the lenses of the disciplines. This approach to education give students a new competency, a cognitive one and expand student’s comprehension beyond disciplines which is the consequence of this integration. This newly acquired awareness is extremely important because the student then, will see beyond the scope of the disciplines and he or she will start asking relevant questions such as the importance of any problem and its solutions for the society and the world they inhabit today. This kind of approach to education is valuable because it rearticulate the world’s complex questions to problems in order for the disciplines to be an instrument through which the student, in this case, will arrive at greater and more inclusive …show more content…
Many educators have expressed the absence of a consistent framework that successfully evaluate interdisciplinary work, Veronica Boix Mansilla, main investigator of the Interdisciplinary Studies Project (Project Zero) at Harvard Graduate School of Education, propose a framework for faculty with several questions that assess student’s learning in a paper, a video, or a work of art: The first one address student’s proper use of his/her disciplinary insights, the second evaluates student’s understanding and integration of the stated discipline, and finally faculty analyzes student’s ability to express “purpose, reflectivity and self-critique” (Boix Mansilla, 2005, p.18). An education that looks at student’s project outcomes with the same rigor than to their personal development and integration, reflects the kind of educational system students need today, a way of teaching and learning that is concerned with looking at the world with precision, perspective, and deeper