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(Can't find a Finnish source for this so not sure they are actually making this change but interesting hypothetically anyway)
It reminds me of how they taught us in primary school (elementary school) and we would do different topics in which we'd learn different subject areas. For example the topic would be India and we'd learn about history, geography, culture, religion, art etc.
I think it was a good way of teaching but I'm not sure how it would work in the higher grades.
This is not new. It's been advocated here for a long time, but doesn't seem to have caught on. It's like project based learning where you do a project that incorporates math, reading, history, geography, etc. It is the way we taught in play based preschools.
Used to be thematic learning, then it was called Out Comes Based Education, now some call it Project Based Learning..today it is all driven by Common Core and standardized testing...
This is how we have always homeschooled... Now the kids are older, though, and I'm not sure how that would look at the high school level. It seems like it would make sense, because even fairly abstract information is more tangible when applied to a topic, though!
This is how we have always homeschooled... Now the kids are older, though, and I'm not sure how that would look at the high school level. It seems like it would make sense, because even fairly abstract information is more tangible when applied to a topic, though!
That's true.
It also seems like it would work well for the vocational schools, as learning through doing makes a lot of sense in them so projects/topics would work better than individual subjects.
But not so sure about things like more advanced chemistry where they might not actually be able to do what they are learning about.
But definitely works well in the lower grades, like it did when I was in primary school.
Seems like it could have it's pros and cons, depending on how it's implemented. I can actually see it having more value in advanced courses where the integration of multiple disciplines and different work functions are part of the whole. Much like modern science is heavily interdisciplinary. That said however, I also think that it is not the most appropriate at the intermediate stage where one needs to learn the foundational skills that will be applied later. IE, during first year chemistry lab one needs to first learn basic chem lab skills and practices before applying them to a project.
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