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Education Reform. 1. Finland’s education reform. Initiated in 1968. Comprehensive school system providing the same curriculum. Curriculum development and revision involves experts, interest groups, teachers and administrators.
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1. Finland’s education reform • Initiated in 1968. • Comprehensive school system providing the same curriculum. • Curriculum development and revision involves experts, interest groups, teachers and administrators. • Students’ ranking the highest in PISA with the narrowest gap between hign and low scores.
2. China’s education reform • Beginning in 2002 with the issuance of the National Curriculum. • 9 year compulsory education for all children adopting the same curriculum and using textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education. • Uneven development due to the unequal distribution of education resources.
3. Main idea and structure • Introduction (Para. 1-3): The hot fashion in education—education tourism. • A misguided quest (Para. 4-6): copying other’s experience won’t be successful. • Reasons of success and failure (Para. 7-10): consensus and consistency. • Conclusion (Para. 11): International comparison indicates what is possible to learn in education reform.
4. Argumentation strategies • Examples and statistics. • Comparison and contrast. • Expert opinions. • Inductive reasoning.
5. Topic of debate for Humanities It is justified to slight the arts and humanities. Requirements: • Divide the whole class into two teams. • Select chief debators and supporting debators. • Find information for your opinions in the Internet.