Review article
Analysis (of the reforms) of Finnish education system in context of the curricular reform in Croatia
Marjan Marino Ninčević
orcid.org/0000-0002-3027-4729
; Hrvatski studiji Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Ivan Zvonimir Bošković
; Hrvatski studiji Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
The Finnish educational system is an example of a thriving system of education. The authors have analyzed different official documents and writings which were published by the Finnish government. Other literature, referring to 1950s and 1960s and including nowadays literature referring to reform/reforms of the Finnish education system, were also used in their research. They came along to joint determinants of education systems and made a theory that can be used as a ground for other countries’ reforms. The leading ideas that have strong support in Finnish society are also described and analyzed such as equal educational opportunities, improving the level of education, right to free education, Nordic traditional approach to education and the teachers’ role in society. High school education has been emphasized as one of the segments that the Finnish pupils are passing through their school-time together with Finnish national curriculum for the upper high school education, where the specifics of this education system are easiest to spot. After the 20th century that was turbulent, the Finns took a challenge to solve problems and to overcome ideological divisions within society. They were determined not to let ideological dissolution and different governments affect the process of education modernization.
Keywords
reform; Finnish education system; school; high school education; curriculum
Hrčak ID:
203954
URI
Publication date:
1.7.2018.
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