Indonesian Teachers in Finland: Answering Questions on Cultural Compatibilities of Public Education

• In Event: 18.059 - MTCC Roundtable Session Three
  In Roundtable Session: 18.059-8 - Student Experiences of Education Through an International Lens

Abstract

Comparative education often highlights national differences between and among education systems and schools. In this systemic approach it is often assumed that actors within those systems will embody those differences in the form of some kind of national culture. In this paper we demonstrate how school teachers from Aceh viewed their experience of furthering their training in Finland. After interviewing practicing teachers from Aceh, who attended a Finnish Master’s Program, we suggest here that there are large sets of unexamined potentialities in terms of thinking about how (mostly public) education systems are more similar than they are different. Our analysis demonstrates the beginnings of this kind of approach.

Authors

• Robert Imre, University of Tampere

• Anna Maria Rytivaara, University of Tampere

• Niina Nyyssölä

• Toni Mikael Saarivirta, Regional State Administrative Agency

• Anna Kristiina Wallin, University of Tampere

• Jari Eskola, University of Tampere