Acknowledgements
Written by Janet English
Acknowledgements Thank you to all who helped make this project a success either through grants, friendship, support, or participation in the project. Major...
Appendix B: Vocational School
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Appendix B: Vocational School Finnish Basic Education is for children 7-16 years old. Students may then choose to continue their education...
Appendix A: American Research Used in Finnish Education
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Appendix A: American Research Used in Finnish Education A list of American writers and research referenced by Finnish educators: Redesigning Group Work by...
21. Lessons Learned and the Journey Home
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A Summary of Lessons Learned Chapter 21 Finland is changing into the land of the “midnight sun;” the days are...
20. Pasi Sahlberg on Equity and Education
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“We should not have different expectations and hopes for our own children than for the others.” Chapter 20 Over two...
19. Visiting Andreas Schleicher and OECD for a Global Perspective
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“The kind of things that are easy to teach and easy to test are diminishing in the labor market relevance because computers...
18. Finns Share Insights About American Education
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“I guess I’d say I didn’t really like the multiple-choice thing in the U.S. My sister said it really well: ‘It felt...
17. Teacher Freedom and the Core Concepts for Learning
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“Teachers have a lot of good ideas and when they process those ideas (and) share the ideas with each other, they can...
16. More than Fifteen Words that Mean “Peace”
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Respecting Student’s Learning Needs Chapter 16 “At first the lack of sound is alarming. In this place it is one’s...
15. Every Child Has “Special Needs”
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“They don’t have learning disabilities, that’s true. They all comes to this that they have this behavior disorder one way or another....