By Hannele Niemi, Jari Multisilta, Lasse Lipponen

This e-book combines numerous views at the steps the Finnish academic procedure has taken to supply scholars with the abilities and competences wanted for residing in state-of-the-art society and sooner or later. The surroundings is used as a metaphor for the academic method. The Finnish process goals to accomplish sustainable schooling through making sure that the process is at the same time interconnected and open to changes. The e-book describes how a versatile curriculum method is succeeding with out the pressures of high-stake trying out. It additionally illustrates how the continued curriculum reform of the elemental schooling is operating. The e-book brings jointly wisdom received in colleges throughout the cooperation of researchers, academics, college principals, the general public region, and personal businesses. The publication offers case experiences of expertise integration geared toward crossing limitations in formal and casual studying settings, in the neighborhood and globally. The members handle 21st-century wishes and requisites via learner-driven wisdom production, collaboration, networking, and electronic literacies. It opens new situations of ways to use electronic storytelling and video games connecting enjoyable, motivation, and studying. The powerful message is that, via collaboration and networking, we will be able to create an instructional surroundings that helps varied beginners.

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The Internet provides learning resources and databases that are accessible across countries and nations. In many areas of life, people depend on international knowledge production, and working environments are increasingly global. Our students will be cosmopolitan learners and workers; even locally, they are connected with international communities. This means that one of the important aims of schools should be to prepare them for a collaborative culture and the idea of sharing. Learning concepts about their agency in a globalized world mean that they should become active global citizens, providing their contributions to a shared world.

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