Finnish Lessons What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?

Name: Finnish Lessons What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?
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ISBN: 9780807752579

ISBN-10: 0807752576

ISBN-13: 9780807752579

Edition: 2011

Authors: Pasi Sahlberg

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Finnish Lessons is a first-hand, comprehensive account of how Finland built a world-class education system during the past three decades. The author traces the evolution of education policies in Finland and highlights how they differ from the United States and other industrialized countries. He shows how rather than relying on competition, choice, and external testing of students, education reforms in Finland focus on professionalizing teachers' work, developing instructional leadership in schools, and enhancing trust in teachers and schools. This book details the complexity of educational change and encourages educators and policymakers to develop effective solutions for their own…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Publication date: 11/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



Series Foreword



Foreword: UnFinnished Business



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Yes, We Can (Learn from One Another)


Northern Exposure


Finland as an Example


Learning from One Another


The Plan of This Book



The Finnish Dream: Equal Educational Opportunities


Post-War Finland


Toward Universal Basic Education


The New School Is Born


Expanding Upper-Secondary Education


Improving Educational Attainment


A Generation of Educational Change


The Finnish Education System in 2011



The Finnish Paradox: Less Is More


From Periphery to Limelight


Level of Educational Attainment


Equity of Outcomes


Student Learning


Cost of Education


Finnish Paradoxes of Education



The Finnish Advantage: The Teachers


The Culture of Teaching


Becoming a Teacher


Academic Teacher Education


Teachers as Researchers


Professional Development


Time for Pedagogical Reflection


Leaders Are Teachers


Good Teachers, Great Schools



The Finnish Way: Competitive Welfare State


The Power of Globalization


The Global Educational Reform Movement


A Knowledge-Based Economy


Welfare, Equality, and Competitiveness


Two Finnish Icons: Nokia and Peruskoulu


The Finnish Dream Challenged



Is the Future Finnish?


Excellence by Being Different


Successful Educational Reform


The Transfer of Change Knowledge


The Future of Finnish Education


Notes


References


Index


About the Author