The school of opportunities - towards every learner's full potential

This publication introduces views and deliberations into debates about the development of basic education. Finnish basic education has attracted international interest for almost ten years now, because international comparisons of learning outcomes have shown Finland to be among the best performers.

Social, intellectual and technological change challenges education and teaching in many ways. Finland and the Finnish education system must be ready to respond to these challenges. As part of change, the school must also continuously review its way of structuring information, understanding learning and carrying out operations.

In order to be able to determine the course for development, we need to analyse the challenges facing Finnish basic education. We have access to plenty of national and international research and assessment data, which not only highlights the strengths of our basic education, but also provides signals for current and future challenges. Meeting these challenges calls for reform of basic education.

Development work of basic education intertwines with development of the education system as a whole. The success of this work is decided by co-operation between several different stakeholders and their commitment to shared objectives. Development of
education must be seen more consistently in terms of development of the entire education system and as a continuous process.

Year:
2011

Publication: 
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