Posted in Journey entries on Nov 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Estonia is wired. Every park, café, restaurant, hotel has free wifi connections. The state government sees the value of technology in the schools and there are SmartBoards and document projectors connected to the teacher computers in many of the classrooms.
The school I visited is not a typical Estonian school, but the state determines the curriculum [...]
Posted in Journey entries on Nov 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Finnish Education: a contrast to expectations
There were several things I was expecting to see in Finland, and found quite the opposite in some cases. To begin with, I had expected a largely monocultural country, but found a great deal of diversity, especially in the city and in the suburb we visited to the east of [...]
Posted in Journey entries on Oct 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
The Danish school system is very interesting. Because the government is very strict about not wanting student to take any break between high school and university, which is traditionally very common all over Europe, parents give their children a break before they start school and don’t start them in Kindergarten until at least age 6 [...]
