Finnish Lessons 2.0

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Muokannut Daniela Silva Toda, sunnuntai 26. syyskuu 2021, 19.53

Hi,

I gave up on reading the book about gamification in education and started reading another one, entitled Finnish Lessons 2.0. This book was recommended by Johanna for further understanding about the Finnish Education System, and I need to understand how they were able to change the country by education (yes, I believe this is very possible, but I have always heard that this is a romantic freiriana vision).

So, I am still reading, but it caught my attention of the severe critics that the author does to the Anglo-saxons educational systems, such as the American and British ones. Theses systems are based on  hard competition, exhausting tests, charters and rankings, privatizations, and firing teachers for bad results. All these are the opposite of the Finnish system, as far as I know, but his words made me realize of how close we are to those systems and how far we are from Finland's.

We have to pay attention to the current projects to our education and work to make it a better one to everyone.

Ikilinkki

Week 32 - The cornerstones of Finnish Education

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Muokannut Daniela Silva Toda, tiistai 31. elokuu 2021, 08.08

Hi, everyone!

I am very late in publishing my posts here, and since I have been writing my impressions on my notebook, I am going to sum them up, in a way to avoid boring you.

So, as I've been saying every time as possible, I'm very amazed by the trust being one of the cornerstones of the Finnish Education System. There's a part in the book 'Finnish Education in Practice - What, Why and How' that says "This idea of shared goals and partnership sustains the very existence of trust. Common aims are best pursued with mutual trust and respect".

After the first classes and some reading, I kept asking myself: 'why does this impress me so much? Shouldn't it be the same in our system? Don't we share the same goals? Aren't we from the same institution? Trust the teachers, the students, the principals, the schools, the curriculum, the system. Why would it be different?'. Well, I don't have all the aswers, but I believe that the Brazilian society is not built over trust and it reflects on everything, so it's understandable that our work is inspected all the time. If we don't trust each other, we should oversee everything through the whole time, right? But, should we?

How do we change this? How can we trust each other as a cornerstone for a better educational system? If you have any clue, please, let me know.

(Texto em Português logo abaixo)

Olá, pessoal!

Estou muito atrasada para publicar meus posts aqui, e como venho escrevendo minhas impressões em meu caderno, vou resumi-las, de forma a não aborrecê-los.

Como tenho dito sempre que possível, estou muito surpresa com a confiança sendo um dos pilares do Sistema de Educação Finlandês. Há uma parte no livro 'Educação finlandesa na prática - o quê, por que e como' que diz "Esta ideia de metas compartilhadas e parceria sustenta a própria existência de confiança. Os objetivos comuns são mais bem buscados com confiança e respeito mútuos".

Depois das primeiras aulas e de algumas leituras, fiquei me perguntando: 'por que isso me impressiona tanto? Não deveria ser o mesmo em nosso sistema? Não compartilhamos os mesmos objetivos? Não somos da mesma instituição? Confie nos professores, alunos, diretores, escolas, currículo, sistema. Por que seria diferente? '. Bem, não tenho todas as respostas, mas acredito que a sociedade brasileira não foi construída sobre a confiança e isso se reflete em tudo, então é compreensível que nosso trabalho seja fiscalizado o tempo todo. Se não confiamos uns nos outros, devemos supervisionar tudo o tempo todo, certo? Mas devemos mesmo?

Como podemos mudar isso? Como podemos confiar uns nos outros como pedra angular para um sistema educacional melhor? Se você tiver alguma pista, por favor, me avise.

Ikilinkki 1 comment (viimeksi kommentoinut Elina Harju, tiistai 31. elokuu 2021, 14.39)

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