Education Export – Mission Impossible?

By Ellimaija | 31.7.2016

Education export – or global education – has many critics. Exporting education is said to be impossible – even unethical. From our point of view this argument is based on few misconceptions, which I try to tackle in this post. The education export’s critics’ favourite argument is: “You cannot export Finnish school or Finnish education…

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Huippuluokan täydennyskoulutusta – Teacher Academy Finland

By Ellimaija | 1.6.2016

“Sharing knowledge is caring” – tällä ajatuksella lähti liikkeelle Teacher Academy Finlandin rakentaminen. Siihen kiteytyy myös scooppaamisen perusidea  (ks. sivun alaosasta Scooping). Mitä siis haluamme tarjota opettajille ympäri maailman? “You truly educate your children for life and yet get excellent results” said a bunch of Chinese teachers looking at me with their eyes sparkling. They…

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