By Hannu Simola
Finnish schooling has been a spotlight of worldwide curiosity when you consider that its first PISA good fortune in 2001. After years of superficial occasion, astonishment and academic tourism, the focal point has lately shifted to what's in all probability the main attention-grabbing part of this Finnish luck tale: that Finnish colleges were successfully employing equipment that pass opposed to the move of world schooling coverage with out checking out, no inspection, no demanding review, no precise nationwide curriculum, no responsibility and no tough pageant. From a historic and sociological point of view the Finnish case isn't in basic terms a linear good fortune tale, yet is a part of a debatable and paradoxical fight in the direction of Utopia: in the direction of egalitarian schooling.
Bringing jointly a suite of essays through Hannu Simola and his colleagues, this e-book analyses the foremost dimensions of education in Finland to supply a severe, analytical and uncompromising photo of the Finnish schooling approach. Going past the tale of luck, the publication finds the complexities of academic switch, but in addition identifies possibilities and possible choices for clever political motion in complicated and trans-national societies.
Including a range of key chapters on Finnish schooling coverage and governance, instructor schooling and school room cultures, the e-book should be of curiosity to researchers, lecturers and postgraduate scholars in comparative schooling, instructor schooling, academic coverage and academic reform.
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