Veronica boix mansilla biography for kids
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Verónica Boix-Mansilla, is a Principal Investigator at Project Zero. An international expert in global and intercultural education, her research examines conditions that enable individuals to understand and take action on the most pressing issues of our times (migration, sustainability, climate change) through transformative pedagogies.
Verónica's research portfolio focuses on quality interdisciplinary education and assessment; the development of global and intercultural competence, and the healthy integration of immigrant-origin children and their peers in today’s migration societies. In each case she works closely with educators in schools, museums, districts and policy circles to advance conceptual frameworks, practices, and tools able to shift educational mindsets. Verónica’s research integrates insights from learning science, pedagogy, anthropology, sociolinguistics, and philosophy. Her most recent projects "Re-Imagining Migration PZ" and "Languages for Relating" invite educa
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Veronica Boix Mansilla
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Dr. Veronica Boix Mansilla is a Principal Investigator at Project Zero, with the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she leads the IdGlobal and Re-Imagining Migration projects. Originally from Argentina, Veronica brings an intercultural sensitivity, as well as a background in cognitive science, human development, and education, to her examination of how to prepare our youth for a world of increasing complexity and interdependence. Her research focuses on three main areas: 1) global competence as it develops among learners and teachers in various world regions with a particular emphasis on intercultural education, equity, and migration; 2) quality interdisciplinary research and education among experts, teachers, and youth; and 3) quality teaching and learning in disciplines (history, biology, the arts) as lenses through which to understand the world. Veronica’s work has produced frameworks and practical tool
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Finding our way into each other’s worlds: Musings on cultural perspective taking
Veronica Boix Mansilla is a Principal utredare at planerat arbete Zero where she also chairs the Future of Learning institute. Her research group examines quality approaches to educating for global competence in and across the disciplines in multiple education contexts.
Like many readers of this blog, inom follow Paul’s dispatches with delight. Each story invites me to halt the busyness of my everyday life and try to see the world through his eyes and through the eyes of those he interviews. With poetry and noggrannhet he brings us “there” to witness the world slowly unfolding as experienced by fellow human beings crafting their lives.
Perspective taking, the capacity to understand how others view their world fryst vatten at a premium in a world of increasing diversity and complexity. It was also the topic of a class on global learning that Liz Dawes Duraisingh and inom taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Edu