Aspirations for future education

21st Century Learning and Innovation Policy

4th February 2015, Finnish Parliament

Executive Director, PhD, MA, EMBA Minna Riikka Järvinen

Development Centre OPINKIRJO

For the well-being of children and youth

Specialists in pedagogy that

enhances the competences children

and youth need for a happy life,

such as creativity, innovation,

critical thinking and problem

solving.

SUHO ry

To start with, two facts about our youth…

Palvelut ja hankkeet

The global challenge for education policies

21st century skills in the Finnish Core

Curriculum for Basic Education 2016

1. Thinking and learning to learn

2. Cultural literacy, interaction and expression

3. Taking care of oneself, everyday life skills, safety

4. Multiliteracy

5. ICT competence

6. Working-life skills and entrepreneurship

7. Participation, influence and responsibility for a sustainable

future.

Education Act, Government Decree, see Vahtivuori-Hänninen et al. 2014

STUDENT AND SOCIETY WELL-BEING

6 Cs for entrepreneurial spirit

How can we enhance 21st century learning?

Change often starts with recognition between

new people with different views and different

approaches, evolving into a creative,

complementary sense of consciousness.

Designing change is sometimes about new

connections, new people taking part. It is about

new agendas, asking different kind of questions

and pointing to different kinds of issues.

http://eskokilpi.blogging.fi/2014/12/04/designing-change/ cited 14.1.2015

Pedagogy of the future?

Krokfors et al. 2010 revised by @MinnaRiikka

Omnipresent or ubique learning?

Emergence

Serendipity

Partnership, coworking

Freedom, intrinsic

motivation

Topic based

Evidence?

Summary of Findings on

Non-Cognitive Skills

http://educationendowmentfoundati

on.org.uk/uploads/pdf/Non-

cognitive_skills_literature_review.p

df cited14.1.2015

In 3rd level education – teacher education?

To be discussed in the workshops to be held in the top-floor conference

facilities of the Hotel Vaakuna from 1 pm today. Right after this seminar

session!

Creative work is a movement of thought that is

always based on working with differences.

Further reading:

Marisha McAuliffe, Abigail Winter 2014

USING ACADEMAGOGY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF MILLENNIAL

LEARNERS: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY

http://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/view/4088, cited 14.1.2015

”There is only one subject-matter for

education, and that is Life in all its

manifestations.”

A.N. Whitehead: The aims of education and other essays 1932

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