Implementing technology education in Finnish general education schools: studying the cross-curricular theme ‘Human being and technology’

Implementing a cross-curricular digital project into a PGCE computer science initial teacher education course

“…Cross-curricular practice in schools is sporadic, many ITT's report that they have been involved or witnessed little crosscurricular activity while on teaching practice. This is confirmed in the Jarvinen and Rasinen [14] study of the 'Human being and technology' strand of the Finnish national curriculum. In order to make CS programming accessible to children software has been developed which reduces the syntactic complexity, such as 'Scratch', but Fincher [15] argues that this can cause misunderstanding later on, when students follow a more rigorous coding curricula.…”

A PISA-2015 Comparative Meta-Analysis between Singapore and Finland: Relations of Students’ Interest in Science, Perceived ICT Competence, and Environmental Awareness and Optimism

“…It is worth noting that in Finland, students gain scientific knowledge based on craft activities rather than technology. Although research has pointed out that Finnish students were being motivated to learn how to protect the environment with the help of technology [52], there is still a considerable amount of work to do in developing a more technology-integrated learning environment.…”

Technological education challenge: an European perspective

“…Technological Education is almost globally present in school curriculum (e.g., see for Finland, Jarvinen & Rasinen, 2015;for Ireland, Leahy & Phelan, 2014). Recurrent teaching objectives in different national curricula consist of design and technical objects, industry, sustainable development, management of daily life, citizenship and the history of technology (Gumaelius & Skogh, 2015).…”