Ms Grahn-Laasonen said: “Schools can choose a theme like climate change and you can look at it from very different perspectives, from very different subjects like mathematics … It's giving our children skills to think about subjects like climate change from different perspectives.”
Proponents of PBL say it helps to equip students with the critical thinking skills they need to flourish today. Kirsti Lonka, a professor of educational psychology at Helsinki University, told the BBC: “When it comes to real life, our brain is not sliced into disciplines ... we are thinking in a very holistic way. And when you think about the problems in the world – global crises, migration, the economy, the post-truth era – we really haven’t given our children the tools to deal with this inter-cultural world.”Is this Finnish school the perfect design?
Design thinking applied to a topic like education is extremely inspiring. Go 🇫🇮!
Finland 🇫🇮 is designing the perfect school ...
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) February 25, 2018
and we are debating if teachers should carry guns in school. https://t.co/o0t8eDxbFv pic.twitter.com/k7kz579mWn