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PISA, ignorance or happiness. The PISA test of the OECD is very powerful in provoking headline news and educational reforms around the world, but at the same time, it is criticized by researchers from comparative pedagogy and comparative education. There is an enormous amount of relationships and correlations that one can derive from the data […]

Finland I am positively surprised at the massive and global way in which Finland appears, once again, in the world´s headlines. Either for their excellent and consistent results in PISA, or because they are about to swear the youngest Prime Minister in the world, Sanna Marin (she is 34), or for their high standards of […]

What do parents need to know before taking their children to school? By Eduardo Andere M.[1] What happens at home is much more important than what happens at school for the success of children in their studies and life. Provided everything is ok at home, these are the factors that parents need to know when […]

By Eduardo Andere M.* Discussion question by Cathy Rubin: “If we make teaching a more financially attractive career will it improve global education overall?” Teachers are paid differently by different countries. Some countries pay very high salaries others very low. If we compare only statutory (compensations and fringe benefits apart) salaries for all levels of education […]

Esta semana la versión electrónica de mi libro “Teachers’ perspectives on Finnish school education: Creating learning environments” is on Sale here This week the ebook version of my book “Teachers’ perspectives on Finnish school education: Creating learning environments” is on Sale here Finland continúa cambiando y actualizando políticas, prácticas, instituciones y currículos de su educación aún y cuando […]

Springer, a German-based publisher, is selling my 2014 book about Finnish education at a 50% discount. Sale ends on March 3, 2017. La casa editorial alemana Springer ofrece mi libro sobre la educación finlandesa con 50% de descuento. La oferta vence el 3 de marzo de 2017. The book “provides a thorough analysis of the […]

Next Tuesday, November 29th, from 15.00 to 17:00, I will give a Guest lecture at Helsinki University, sponsored by Cicero Learning. The lecture is divided in two main topics: 1) Finnish education and Learning from an international perspective; 2) PISA is coming to town! I am a visitor researcher at NYU, Boston College, and the “Centro […]

Jyväskylä, Finland. Instruction subjects do NOT disappear in the new FINNISH peruskoulu curriculum. What happens is that the new curriculum for compulsory school education (effective as of 2016 for grades 1 to 6, and as of 2017 for grades 7 to 9) reinforces “multidisciplinary learning modules” where “integrative instruction” is promoted during all school years. Good to excellent […]

By Eduardo Andere M. PhD. “The Package” Teachers from around the world, including those from the US, in public or private schools, think that the advantages of being a teacher clearly outweigh the disadvantages, that if they could decide again they would still choose to work as teachers, that they wouldn’t like to change to […]

From learning environments to motivation environments. The next paragraph is the preliminary result from my research about learning environments in seven countries. I think that we will start to hear about a new paradigm shift in school education; in the 80s and 90s the whole idea was “learning to learn”, “lifelong learning” and “competences”; in […]

“The Dynamism of a Soccer Player” By Eduardo Andere M. The World Soccer 2014 party is barely half-way, but for the Dutch and Mexicans today, June 29, 2014, it seems the climax. Soccer is a sport that unites and separates the world; showing the best and worst of ourselves; total ecstasy or bottomless depression. The […]

U.S. teachers: Do they earn too much or too little? By Eduardo Andere M. The talk about teachers is a fad. They are the subject of the public agenda, the big and the small screens, international organizations, the media, parents, the public opinion, and politicians, of course. Around the world there are bad teachers and […]