[Cabrinews] finlandia

[Maria Giuseppina BARTOLINI]

Se a qualcuno interessa una analisi ben documentata (e non trionfalistica)
suggerisco una lettura che contiene elementi propositivi:

HOW FINS LEARN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE (288 pages )
Erkki Pehkonen, Maija Ahtee and Jari Lavonen , Helsinki University, Finland
The Finnish students’ success in the first PISA 2000 evaluation was a
surprise to most of the Finns, and even people working in
teacher education and educational administration had difficulties to
believe that this situation would continue. Finland’s second
success in the next PISA 2003 comparison has been very pleasing for
teachers and teacher educators, and for education
policymakers. The good results on the second time waked us to think
seriously on possible reasons for the success. Several
international journalists and expert delegations from different countries
have asked these reasons while visiting in Finland. Since
we had no commonly acceptable explanation to students’ success, we decided
at the University of Helsinki to put together a
book in order to give a commonly acceptable explanation to our students’
success in the international PISA evaluations. It tries
to explain the Finnish teacher education and school system as well as
Finnish children’s learning environment at the level of the
comprehensive school, and thus give explanations for the Finnish PISA
success. The book is a joint enterprise of Finnish teacher
educators. The explanations for success given by altogether 40 authors can
be classified into three groups: Teacher and teacher
education, school and curriculum, and other factors, like the use of ICT
and a developmental project LUMA. The main result is
that there is not one clear explanation, although research-based teacher
education seems to have some influence. But the true
explanation may be a combination of several factors.
ISBN 978-90-8790-243-8 hardback USD147/EUR135; ISBN 978-90-8790-242 -1
paperback USD49/EUR45

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