Transdisciplinarity

Abstract

In the process of pursuing five degrees, working in higher education, and sending children to public schools, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about education system’s structure and method of operation. As a result of conversations and personal experience, I have come to believe that the education system, both at the secondary and post-secondary level, is at a critical stage of justification and relevance. With significant technological advances every few months, former ways of doing, thinking, and being become obsolete not in decades, but in weeks. The information age of the Internet has made the current education system in America seem old and outdated, as existing textbooks fail to meaningfully address important and timely issues. Access to information is no longer limited to a select few educated teachers. It is available to anyone with cable TV or access to a computer and the Internet. Although minorities certainly lag behind in the digital age, on the whole, there is another level of expectation by students about their educational experience, and in particular, their higher education experience.