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Finnish Superintendents Are Striving with a Changing Operational Environment

Pekka KanervioMika RiskuSeppo Pulkkinen

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business.industryPolitical sciencePublic relationsbusinessAffect (psychology)CurriculumPhase (combat)

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When one considers Finland’s education system through the 10-year curriculum reform cycle, slogans of trust and mild evaluation or results from international surveys on learning outcomes, one may think that Finnish superintendents’ operational environment is placid and serene. The truth, however, is very different. For historical reasons, Finnish society is now undergoing many of the changes that, for example, the other Nordic countries already encountered decades ago. Of course, the same contemporary international trends which affect the other Nordic countries influence Finland as well, but because they do so in a nation that is in many ways in a different developmental phase, they often manifest themselves differently. This is what frequently makes Finland, and thus its superintendents, appear to be outliers.

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2015-12-02
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25106-6_3