The Importance Of Education In Classroom Education

Introduction More than 60 years ago, World War 2 has ravaged most parts of the world. The war brought an absolute change in the economic and political landscape. New ideas and ideals, like capitalism and communism, are made out with consequences of war. But among this a new problem arose, asking the questions on what to teach the next generation, and on how to educate the new generation after the war. After the war, nations and governments all over the world had to choose on what to teach to their children. If a country wanted to ally with the United States or the United Kingdom, the country had to adopt some of capitalist ideas, which affected their politics, economy, and subsequently, their education. The same would go the countries who …show more content…
That Industrial Age classroom learning model is the same system that most nations used today in the modern world, with the difference is the context of their education which is changed and updated throughout the decades to include new found research, inventions, and ideals that impacted the world. This is the time that we see nations all around the globe agree in one thing when they are asked on how they should educate. According to Nelson Mandela, at one of his speeches during 2003, he said that “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. Education is one of the tools that governments use. Governments use it to develop the social and economic situation of their nations. In our modern age, the right to education is a universal human right, as stated in the first part of Article 26 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document listing all the fundamental rights of a person, which was put in place by United …show more content…
• To become a teacher in the Finnish education system, they are required to study for 5-years in higher education to acquire a Master’s degree and;
• Decentralized core curricula where local school teachers, educators, staff and administrators are given the freedom to build their own curricula based on the core curricula.
This are just the few policies implemented in the Finnish system. More of the policies and features will be discussed throughout this research. Before the research get into key elements of Finnish system, understanding the basic structure and innerworkings of Finnish education system will give you some understanding about the arguments in this research.
Finnish Education System
The Finnish education system is supervised by the Ministry of Education and Culture, under the Finnish government. The education system is composed of daycare programs, pre-school or kindergarten, Peruskoulu or the nine-year compulsory basic comprehensive school, post- compulsory upper secondary education, and higher