Education in the Age of Mass Migration and Superdiversity

MARCELO M. SUÁREZ-OROZCODean, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

Conference on Heritage/Community LanguagesUCLA Covel Commons, Los Angeles, CA March 7, 2014

Education for Globalization

Global Migration

The New Immigration and the New, New Immigration Top Countries of Birth

Country of Birth 2006 %1. Mexico 11,534,972 30.82. Philippines 1,634,117 4.43. India 1,505,351 4.04. China 1,357,482 3.65. Vietnam 1,116,156 3.06. El Salvador 1,042,218 2.87. Korea 1,021,212 2.78. Cuba 932,563 2.59. Canada 847,228 2.310. Dominican Republic 764,930 2.0

11. Guatemala 740,986 2.012. Jamaica 643,067 1.7

Adapted from Pew Hispanic Center, 2008

The Human Face of Globalization

Culture and Identity

The Cultural Psychology of Immigration

Immigration is “of and for” the Family

Separations and Re-Unifications

Transnationalism of the Heart: by the end of the decade remittances surpassed 350 billion dollars –more than double the combined world international aid-India received $27 billion, China $25.7 billion, Mexico $25 billion, Philippines $17 billion (World Bank, 2008)

Immigration Studies @ NYU

Immigration Studies @ NYU

Growing Up In the ShadowsNearly 30% of young adults in the US are either

immigrants or children of immigrants (Rumbaut & Komaie, 2010)

Over 1.1 million immigrant youth are ‘Dreamers’ (unauthorized immigrants)

Over 4 million 2nd generation children and youth live in mixed documentation families (with parents or siblings who are undocumented)

Education Today Each country is unhappy in its own way

Three Protracted Problems

Boredom has become the elephant in the (class) room

Inequality, ‘concentrated disadvantage,’ (W. Wilson) & ‘Triple Segregation’ (G. Orfield). The widely acknowledged general failure to fully integrate large numbers of children of color in the US and other high income countries; the US School to Prison Pipeline

The Global Achievement Gap

Education for Globalization: Three Principles

Education for “doing” and “living” well – the flourishing ideal of Eudaemonia

Education for civic engagement, belonging, and cultural citizenship

Education for the transition to the ever more globally integrated labor market

Cultural Sensibilities

Children growing up today are more likely than in any previous generation to face a life of working and networking, loving and living with others from different national, linguistic, religious, and racial backgrounds. In the U.S. today minorities make up 46.5 percent of the under 18 population, 10 states are now minority majority states in their under 18 population (HI, NM, CA, TX, AZ, FL, GA, MD, MS, NV AND D,C) -- working across cultural and linguistic boundaries will hence forth have a huge premium

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Managing Complexity in the 21 st Century will require an education for life-long cognitive, behavioral, and relational engagement

The skills needed for identifying, analyzing and

mobilizing to solve problems from multiple perspectives will require individuals who are

Intellectually curious and cognitively flexible, tolerant of ambiguity, able to synthesize knowledge within and across disciplines, culturally and linguistically sophisticated, and able to work collaboratively in groups made up of diverse individuals

Best Practices for the Global Era Well Grounded in Core Subjects with Strong Language Supports, L1 and L2 Synthetic &interdisciplinary thinking, (Howard Gardner in Suárez-Orozco, 2010) Global Consciousness (Boix Mansilla and Howard Gardner in Suárez-Orozco, 2007) Cultural Sensibilities & Intercultural Skills, (Rita Süssmuth in Suárez-Orozco, 2007) Self-awareness

Health & wellbeing & self-knowledge (LeVine and Bloom in Suárez-Orozco, 2004 & 2007) Critical Thinking & Lifelong Learning Skills Communication Skills (Levy and Murnane in Suárez-Orozco, 2007)

Writing & Public Speaking Collaborative skills

Interpersonal skills and ability to work with those different than oneself Information, Media Skills/ICT Literacy (Daley in Suárez-Orozco, 2010) Life Skills

Leadership Adaptability & flexibility Personal accountability & Self-Regulation