Finnish Education
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In The Classroom
Trust: Finland’s education system has it
If there is a one-word answer to the often-posed question, 'What is the one thing that’s most different about the…
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Opinion
Can Pasi Sahlberg’s Finnish thinking help fix Australian education?
With the teacher shortage looming large in headlines around the country, education minister Jason Clare has announced an expert panel…
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Policy & Reform
‘Why are we still doing what we do when all evidence indicates that it does not work?’ A Finnish perspective on our education system – opinion
In the shadows of last year’s teacher strike in New South Wales, a number of people asked me how the…
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In The Classroom
What Finland can teach Australian education about teacher autonomy, retention: opinion
With all the talk about a teacher shortage, and the fact that some 50 per cent of the country’s qualified…
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Health+Wellbeing
In teachers we trust – opinion
While many Australian schools have spent the last few decades admiring the old school tie, tightening standardisation and rubrics while…
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Health+Wellbeing
The Finnish perspective has arrived: PD sessions commence in Australia
He’s the author of Testing 1, 2,3: What Australian education can learn from Finland, and this month teacher, writer and…
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In The Classroom
Finnish education is coming to Australia: Podcast
EducationReview · Finnish education is coming to Australia | Michael Lawrence The last time I interviewed Michael Lawrence the…
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In The Classroom
New book explores what we can learn from Finland’s education system
A pithy quote sets the tone early in Michael Lawrence’s latest book about the state of education in Australia and…
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