Education in the Age of Mass Migration and Superdiversity

1. Education in the Age of Mass Migration and Superdiversity MARCELO M. SUÁREZ-OROZCO Dean, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Conference on Heritage/Community Languages UCLA Covel Commons, Los Angeles, CA March 7, 2014

2. Education for Globalization

3. Global Migration

4. The New Immigration and the New, New Immigration Top Countries of Birth Adapted from Pew Hispanic Center, 2008

5. The Human Face of Globalization

6. Culture and Identity

7. 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)

10. Growing Up In the Shadows • Nearly 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)

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. ILearn • 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

15. 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 (BoixMansilla 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