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- Vol 2 RE: Chapters 7, 12, App D, App F
- Vol 3 RE: Chapters 1, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, App D
- Vol 3 TE: App C
- Vol 4 RE: App D
- Vol 5 RE: App D
- Vol 6 RE: Chapter 13, App C, App D, App E
- Vol 7 RE: App C
finnish education systemteacher autonomyphenomenon-based learningtransversal competencesmultidisciplinary learningstudent wellbeingequityresearch-based teacher educationBook Evidence summaryAt a glance
Lonka explains the historical, social, and pedagogical foundations of Finnish education while examining how the system can respond to globalization, digitalization, automation, and rapidly changing knowledge. The book connects Finland’s development of an equitable public school system and research-based teacher education with the newer curriculum emphasis on transversal competences and multidisciplinary, phenomenon-based learning.
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Learning is presented as active knowledge construction involving prior conceptions, inquiry, collaboration, emotion, motivation, embodiment, and reflection rather than passive reception. Phenomena provide shared objects around which subject perspectives can be integrated without discarding disciplinary knowledge. The book discusses engaging learning environments, digital practices, assessment, teacher expertise, student wellbeing, and seven broad competence areas in the Finnish curriculum. Examples and contributions from educational specialists illustrate how schools can organize projects and support creativity, participation, multiliteracy, and learning-to-learn.
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Lonka does not present Finnish schooling as a finished export model; she identifies tensions and the need for continuing reform. The central message is that future-ready education combines strong knowledge, equitable structures, professionally autonomous teachers, and pedagogies that make learners active participants in meaningful collective inquiry.
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