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LEGO Prize 2016

12-5-2016 Former schoolteacher Pasi Sahlberg is the winner of the LEGO® Prize 2016. Finnish Sahlberg wins for his work to improve the quality of children’s education worldwide. The price was presented at the LEGO Foundation’s annual LEGO Idea Conference in Denmark, which gathers academics, practitioners and representatives from educational organisations.

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Handbook of Global Education Policy

3-27-2016 This new handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which domestic education policy is framed and influenced by global institutions and actors. It is edited by Karen Mundy, Andy Green and Antoni Verger and published as a 630 page and 32 chapter volume by Wiley-Blackwell. Book Surveys current debates about the role of education in a global polity, highlights key transnational policy…

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HGSE Distinguished Author Series Talk on Feb 9

1-5-2016 I am honored to engage in a conversation with distinguished colleagues and students about Finnish Lessons 2.0 at HGSE’s Distinguished Author Series book talk on Tuesday February 9th. I will speak about the main impact of this book globally and outline some main misinterpretations of it in the U.S. and beyond. I will be joined to discuss these issues by Boston College Professor Andy Hargreaves, Vermont…

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Johtoryhmä ohjaamaan peruskoulun uudistamisen kärkihanketta

11-12-2015 Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö on asettanut johtoryhmän tukemaan peruskoulun uudistamisen kärkihankkeen toteutusta. Ryhmän toimikausi kestää 28.2.2019 asti. Johtoryhmän puheenjohtajina toimivat opetus- ja kulttuuriministeri Sanni Grahn-Laasonensekä valtiosihteeri Olli-Pekka Heinonen.…

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Oulun yliopiston uusi hallitus

12-10-2015 Oulun yliopiston hallitukseen on valittu kolme uutta ulkopuolista jäsentä yliopistokollegion kokouksessa 12.10.2015. Hallituksessa on kaikkiaan kuusi jäsentä yliopiston ulkopuolelta ja kuusi yliopistoyhteisön edustajaa. Kolme uutta ulkopuolista jäsentä valittiin 1.1.2016 alkaen neljäksi vuodeksi. Nyt valitut uudet jäsenet ovat Kelan pääjohtaja, hammaslääketieteen tohtori, valtiotieteiden…

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Hard Questions on Educational Change

This coming academic year (2015/2016) I will teach new course at Harvard Graduate School of Education called Hard Questions on Global Educational Change. It will focus on some of the most widely and passionately debated issues in current education reforms and help students to improve their skills to communicate their ideas and views. Classes run from September to late April on Wednesdays at 4pm (EST). Following is the description…

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Swedish School Commission

In April 2015, the Swedish Government appointed the Schools Commission that is chaired by Anna Ekström. She is Director General of the Swedish National Agency of Education (Skolverket). School Commission main task is to follow up the recommendations made by OECD’s education policy review that was published in Stockholm in early May. The recommendations of the OECD report focus on three priorities: conditions that promote…

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My teaching program at HGSE in 2015/16

My teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) in academic year 2015/16 consists of three courses. Two of them are semester-long, full (four credit) courses and third is a yearlong, new course. Here are brief introductions of each of them. International Lessons from Successful Education Systems (A-317). This course will take a closer…

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Open Society Foundations Advisory Board

I have joined the Open Society Foundations Education Support Program Advisory Board. This program works to make the right to education meaningful by combating inequality and discrimination in education and exposing structural inequalities that reproduce education disadvantage and exclusion. This is what the OSF…

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HGSEat103: The Teaching Profession Around the World Part 2

PART 2: INTERNATIONAL MODELS OF TEACHER EDUCATION   Week 6 – March 4 Research-based Teacher Education in Finland The class will be given an introduction to a research-based…

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