Comparing Schools in Finland and in the United States - FLOSSE Posse - The Diigo Meta page

• 21 Jan 09
  

  Debra Hicks

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• 12 Aug 08
  

  paul reid

  In Finland the educational system, as it is today, was build slowly. It is still strongly relying on the work of Uno Cygnaeus ( 1810-1888 ) who was influenced by the early European “constructivist” Pestalozzi ( 1746–1827 ) and Froebel ( 1782 –1852 ). The idea that children learn the best when they areactive and build things was not really invented by John Dewey or Piaget – they only were able to present the idea in a language of positivist science, when the earlier thinkers thought themselves as “pedagogues” or educational philosophers.

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  • Teachers in the school in California told that collaboration with teachers of other subjects would be great but hard to arrange. The curriculum and lesson plans seem to be so tight that there is very little space to plan and implement things differently.
  • In Finland students have a lot of freedom of expression. The youth culture is rather integrated to the curriculum than isolated from is. This kind of openness brings the topics current in youth cultures under consideration among adults, too.
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  • • These are “good”, “fast”, and “cheap”. So your building can be either:

      
      
      • Good and finnished fast, but this becomes expensive
      • Good and cheap but will take very long to build
      • Cheap and made fast, but not very good
    • In Finland the educational system, as it is today, was build slowly. It is still strongly relying on the work of Uno Cygnaeus ( 1810-1888 ) who was influenced by the early European “constructivist” Pestalozzi ( 1746–1827 ) and Froebel ( 1782 –1852 ). The idea that children learn the best when they areactive and build things was not really invented by John Dewey or Piaget – they only were able to present the idea in a language of positivist science, when the earlier thinkers thought themselves as “pedagogues” or educational philosophers.
• 22 Jul 08
  

  Gabriela Grosseck

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  Bob Irving

  really interesting article by a Finnish educator who visited American schools.

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