PARADOXES OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCE

In summary, it is worth drawing attention to what Pasi Sahlberg (2011), calls the ‘Four Paradoxes’ of the Finnish education system:

LESS IS MORE

What You Should Know

a. Little correlation between intended instruction hours & resulting student performance.
b. However, on the flip side, we are being asked to do more with less, literally, e.g. increasing class sizes due to the economic recession.

Biometric Silos

REFERENCES

Pasi Sahlberg (2011), Paradoxes of educational improvement: The Finnish experience [21]
- Scottish Educational Review 43 (1), 3-23. http://pasisahlberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Paradoxes-of-improvement-SER-2011.pdf, accessed 2013.8
- Sahlberg, P. 2011. The Fourth Way of Finland. Journal of educational Change, 12(2), 173-184. http://pasisahlberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/The-Fourth-Way-of-Filand-JEC-2011.pdf, accessed 2013.8

Comments

Share Your ThoughtsBe the first to write a comment.