Finland’s new plan to change school means an end to subjects
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Here's one presentation from the government, where they use the term "broad-based competence": http://www.oph.fi/download/151294_ops2016_curriculum_reform_...
A shorter one with video and the term "transversal competences": https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=70&v=KY_LZJkEo28 Slides: http://www.oph.fi/download/158389_general_aspects_of_basic_e...
EDIT: These should be contrasted with the old curriculum which talks of "integration and cross-curricular themes", "examining phenomena from the perspectives of different fields": http://www.oph.fi/download/47675_POPS_net_new_2.pdf
EDIT2: Finnish schools are obliged to introduce a period of “phenomenon-based teaching” at least once a year. These projects can last several weeks -- by 2020. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/finland-schoo...
It's depressing that this is considered "radical."
I think tradition is important, but so is learning how to think totally differently in a fundamental way - and I think that's what these educators see in this specific case as radical. They see it as a creating a foundation of how to think first, then it is followed by lesson plans. It may affect the way people learn to organize and think about information, or it may not. Maybe people in the future will refine information down to essential subject form, because the chaos in connectivity between information forms has become too complex to reason about, and consequently becomes too complex to do anything with (aside from think). These things happen already. The difference is a magnitude of scale. Will an entire generation be raised with these characteristics?
Becoming preschool teacher in Finland requires a bachelor degree in "varhaiskasvatus" (that roughly translates to early parenting, which is an academic subject). I don't know what qualifications are required in US, but in many other European countries the bar of becoming preschool teacher is much lower.