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Monday, March 23, 2015

Questioning assumptions related to basic education might lead to some big improvements in quality of learning!

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: