Finland : Policy and Vision
Rautiainen, M., & Kostiainen, E. (2015). Finland : Policy and Vision. In T. Corner (Ed.), Education in the European Union : Pre-2003 Member States (pp. 91-108). Bloomsbury Academic.
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Finland’s educational history can be divided into three periods. The first started in the
Middle Ages when formal schooling began to develop in association with the church.
The second started in the 17th century when Christian popular education was
extended to include, in principle, the entire population. The third change was in the
19th century when the educational system significantly expanded to encompass not
only basic education but also higher education and adult education.
The past decade has been very successful for Finland, at least according to
international assessments measuring school learning outcomes (such as PISA and
TIMMS). At the end of November 2012 Finland’s education system was ranked the
best in the developed world according to a survey carried out by the education
company Pearson. What are the reasons for these results? In particular two significant
trends underlie them. Firstly, the way the position of education has been shaped in
Finnish society and, secondly, the organization of school and teacher education from
the 1970s on.
Although the history of Finnish education can be regarded as a success story
(especially during recent decades), the challenges for the future are huge. Society is
changing rapidly and at the moment the ‘hot’ issues from pre-education to higher
education are similar: what are the aims of education and what is ICT’s role in
education.
In this chapter we will first present the history of education in Finland. In the second
part the focus is on the contemporary system and in the third we discuss the future of
education in Finland.
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