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RE: Why I’m quitting teaching part 11/11: Five ways in which mainstream education doesn't 'fit' society
THANK YOU @revisesociology for your very important post!! I live in Norway, and you have nailed my concerns with my kids' school/ shooling system bang on the head. We tend to think of the schooling systems as varying between different nations, but it seems we face many of the same difficulties/ challenges.
That's interesting to here: the standard line here is that the Scandanavian systems are little utopias (although I've mainly heard that in relation to Finland).
In general I just think our education systems are something of a throwback to the industrial era, they really need to post-modernise!
Thanks for the follow/ comment,
Karl.
We as Norwegians look to Finland as well when it comes to educational systems, but I don't think many find the Norwegian one is a utopia, and especially not the Swedish. The Swedes, who normally excel in so many areas, have really run their educational system into the ground. At least there was a lot of talk about it a couple of years ago. One can hope the situation has improved. My mother in law worked in a Swedish school, so I had quite a lot of input from her before she retired. :)