Book launch:Finland’s Famous Education System – Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling
A new open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors across 28 chapters, it presents a major collection of critical views of the Finnish education system and topics that cohere around social justice concerns. It questions rhetoric, myths, and commonly held assumptions surrounding Finnish schooling.
Authors present main findings of the book on Thursday 13 April at 12.30–14.00 (Finnish time, UTC+3). You can participate on-site or on-line. On-site participation is possible at the University of Turku (Educarium, 4th floor, room 441, Assistentinkatu 5), at Tampere University (Edu’s Café, 3rd floor, Åkerlundinkatu 5) or at the University of Helsinki (Siltavuorenpenger 5A, Minerva K108). For on-line participation send a message to cele@utu.fi to obtain a participation link. Warmly welcome!
Please see the programme and book details below
Finland’s Famous Education System – Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling
Programme 13.4.2023:
12.30 Opening: professor Piia Seppänen & professor Martin Thrupp
12.45 Book themes: professor Jaakko Kauko
A selection of chapters presented in the event at Tampere/Turku/Helsinki/on-line (see the full list all authors from hyperlinks)
1. Jaakko Kauko: Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture in the Light of Its Working Groups
2. Niina Mykrä: Ecological Sustainability and Steering of Finnish Comprehensive Schools
3. Inkeri Rissanen: Religions and Worldviews as “The Problem” in Finnish Schools
4. Piia Seppänen, Iida Kiesi & Nina Nivanaho: Businessing Around Comprehensive Schooling & Co-operation of Edu-business and Public Schooling: Is the Governance of Education in Finland Shifting from the Public Sector to Networks?
5. Piia af Ursin & Tero Järvinen: Student Disengagement in Finnish Comprehensive Schooling & The Significance of Socioeconomic Background for the Educational Dispositions and Aspirations of Finnish School Leavers
6. Piia Seppänen, Terhi Pasu & Sonja Kosunen: Pupil Selection and Enrolment in Comprehensive Schools in Urban Finland
7. Sonja Kosunen & Venla Bernelius: “Three Bedrooms and a Nice School”—Residential Choices, School Choices and Vicious Circles of Segregation in the Education Landscape of Finnish Cities
8. Elina Lahelma Controversies and Challenges in the History of Gender Discourses in Education in Finland
9. Hanna Helander: Saami Language Online Education Outside the Saami Homeland—New Pathways to Social Justice
10. Pia Mikander: Racism in Finnish School Textbooks: Developments and Discussions
11. Markku Jahnukainen: Inclusion in Finland: Myths and Realities
12. Tuuli From: Rethinking Finland’s Official Bilingualism in Education
13. Heidi Huilla, Tiina Luoma & Riikka Oittinen: Everyday Life in Schools in Disadvantaged Areas
13.45–14.00 Discussion and closing: associate professor Sonja Kosunen
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Book:
Finland’s Famous Education System – Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling
Editors: Martin Thrupp, Piia Seppänen, Jaakko Kauko, Sonja Kosunen
Springer, open access