Some creative value-focused thinking going on in Finland: http://qz.com/367487/goodbye-math-and-history-finland-wants-to-abandon-teaching-subjects-at-school/
Why we do basic education? Because we want our children to learn skills and gain knowledge about different phenomena.
Some people seem to have been thinking about the useful question: Why teach by subject?
“Finland is considering its most radical overhaul of basic education yet—abandoning teaching by subject for teaching by phenomenon.”
And arrived at some conclusions:
“The idea aims to eliminate one of the biggest gripes of students everywhere: “What is the point of learning this?” Now, each subject is anchored to the reason for learning it.”
The main argument seems to be that anchoring taught material to the reason for learning it, i.e., understanding phenomena is supposed to increase student motivation to learn. Well, I think, it might even help at understanding the phenomena better by enabling the teaching to take a more holistic views on them. In any case, I find this cool and, at least, my intuition says it is a good thing.
And in general there seem to be some more thinking about what old ways should be challenged:
Why we do basic education? Because we want our children to learn skills and gain knowledge about different phenomena.
Some people seem to have been thinking about the useful question: Why teach by subject?
“Finland is considering its most radical overhaul of basic education yet—abandoning teaching by subject for teaching by phenomenon.”
And arrived at some conclusions:
“The idea aims to eliminate one of the biggest gripes of students everywhere: “What is the point of learning this?” Now, each subject is anchored to the reason for learning it.”
The main argument seems to be that anchoring taught material to the reason for learning it, i.e., understanding phenomena is supposed to increase student motivation to learn. Well, I think, it might even help at understanding the phenomena better by enabling the teaching to take a more holistic views on them. In any case, I find this cool and, at least, my intuition says it is a good thing.
And in general there seem to be some more thinking about what old ways should be challenged:
“Pasi Silander, Helsinki’s development manager, says the world has changed with the spread of technology and many of the old ways of teaching have no practical purpose. “
Which is super cool. I hope this leads to some good progress!
Which is super cool. I hope this leads to some good progress!
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