Finnish Lessons 3.0 (what Can The World Learn From Educational Change In Finland?)

By (author) Sahlberg Pasi; By (author) Gardner Howard
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The first two editions of Finnish Lessons described how a small Nordic nation built a school system that provided access to a world-class education for all of its young people. In this third edition, Pasi Sahlberg updates the story of how Finland sustains its exemplary educational performance, including how it responds to turbulent changes.
Description
The first two editions of Finnish Lessons described how a small Nordic nation built a school system that provided access to a world-class education for all of its young people. Now available in 30 languages, this Grawemeyer Award–winning book continues to influence education policies and school practices around the globe. In this Third Edition, Pasi Sahlberg updates the story of how Finland sustains its exemplary educational performance, including how it responds to turbulent changes at home and throughout the world. Finnish Lessons 3.0 includes important new material about:

• teachers and teacher education
• teaching children with special needs
• the role of play in high-quality education
• Finland''s responses to growing inequality, slipping international test scores, and the global pandemic

In the midst of national education reforms and global changes driven by public health crises and economic turbulence, Finnish Lessons 3.0 encourages teachers, students, and policymakers to think big and bold when they look for new solutions to improving their schools and entire education systems. This edition provides an even deeper dive into the present world of education in Finland in light of the most recent education statistics and international data, including PISA 2018, TIMSS 2016, and TALIS 2018.

Table of contents

• Foreword by Howard Gardner
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Where There’s a Will There’s a Way
• Northern Exposure
• Finland as an Inspiration
• Learning From Others
• The Plan of This Book
• 1. The Finnish Dream: A Good School for All
• Postwar Finland
• Universal Basic Education
• The New School Is Born
• Expanding Upper-Secondary Education
• Improving Educational Attainment
• Four Phases of Educational Change
• The Finnish Education System in 2020
• The Finnish Dream Challenged
• 2. The Finnish Paradox: Less Is More
• From Periphery to Limelight
• Educational Attainment
• Equity of Outcomes
• Learning
• Cost of Education
• Finnish Paradoxes of Education
• The Perils of PISA
• 3. The Finnish Advantage: The Teachers
• The Culture of Teaching
• Becoming a Teacher
• Research-Based Teacher Education
• Teachers as Researchers
• Professional Development
• Teachers Are Leaders
• School Leaders Are Teachers
• Good Teachers, Great Schools
• What If Finland’s Great Teachers Taught in Your Schools?
• 4. The Finnish Way: Competitive Welfare State
• The Power of Globalization
• The Global Educational Reform Movement
• An Innovation Economy
• Welfare, Equality, and Competitiveness
• Foreign Innovation, Finnish Implementation
• Myths About The Finnish School
• 5. Is the Future Finnish?
• Success by Being Different
• Successful Educational Reform
• The Transfer of Change Knowledge
• Stress Test for Finnish Schools
• The Future of Finnish Education
• Postscript by Sir Ken Robinson
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Author

Review quote
International Praise for Previous Editions of Finnish Lessons!

"Finland’s approach to education reform shows we must address student inequality before we can expe