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Finding a footing in what I feel is ‘the’ most pressing issue in education to focus on is challenging. I find myself settling on ideas, snowballing into new territories, and then losing myself in the soup of wicked problems in the world of education.
I decide on a broad theme that strikes a chord with me. Then, I go through a never-ending cycle of trying to narrow that scope, only to end up with multiple broad ideas that create a storm of confusion and disillusionment about the issues facing the education landscape today and tomorrow.
Before my arrival on the course, migration and education had always been a rooted interest of mine. Using that as my broad lens, I would like to use the next few weeks and months to read, reflect, and identify pressing issues in this intersection that could potentially lead me to a core question(s).
- What are the leading causes of migration?
- Which of these causes has the most significant impact on education?
- Is this impact desirable?
- Does age have a factor in this impact?
- Are children and their educational journey impacted by this?
- How can we, as educators, support/mitigate these effects?
I aim to keep these questions at my core. What leads from them yet? I am unsure, but my interests still hinge on developing and refining these questions. It is not necessarily a step forward but a reassurance that the foundations of my interests are stable.
