Tuesday 19 December 2017

Quizlet

Quizlet provides free study tools like flashcard, games and quizzers to improve the learning skills and performance. This apps help to improve memorization skills especially in study course where the terminology need to the remembered. By downloading the apps and creating a study set accordingly. By entering term and definition in the apps, one can recall each time what he/she hand entered in the apps. This app is not limited to only definition and can also for remembering some context, can also develop question and answers. 

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Prezi




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Edugroup


Google forms

Google forms will be used to get course feedback form the students. This forms can also be used for pre-task to assess the level of knowledge about the topic and also to assess the knowledge acquired after the course, from the students. 


Research Gate





Tuesday 5 December 2017

Multicultural education: A closer look at Finnish education


Finland is known for its culturally homogenous nature; however multiculturalism is not a new phenomenon in Finnish society. There has been a long influence of Swedish and Russian culture. Under rule of Swedes kingdom and Russian Empire for almost 700 years, Finland experiences wide range of multiculturalism.  Even, after the independency, Finnish constitution adopts Finnish and Swedish as national language providing equal opportunity to minority Swedish speaking Finnish citizens.  Earlier, Russian and Swedish nationality constituted a minority community, however, presently Finland experience a rapidly growing immigrants from other nationality. Immigrant counts to approximately 4.8 % of the total population in Finland (Statistics Finland, 2016). Among the immigration, lager group represented from Russia and Estonia and along with other nationalities. Increasing immigrants in the Finnish society demands a modern multicultural education to provide equal opportunity to function effectively. However, multicultural education is not an unknown phenomenon. Since 1980s, policies concerning multiculturalism in education have been implemented in Finland. These policies aim to provide opportunity to those who are moving to Finland to function equally in Finnish society (Lahti, 2007). Among those polices, compulsory education for children of foreign nationals, free education, non-discrimination policy ensured everyone enjoy the privilege of equality and have an opportunity to experience them. Multiculturalism in education is indistinct term. In generally, we could explain multicultural education helps to enhance empowerment in students to benefit from social and economic opportunity available in a community without differentiating color (race) and prejudice towards one’s culture. At the same time, we could defined the core principle of multicultural education as to promote diversity in learning process, enhance intercultural understanding between teachers and students and to integrated to a new culture

Some Challenges faced during Multicultural education:  Teachers experience three major challenges when they are teaching in a multicultural environment (Graeffe and Lestinen (2011)): (1)Teachers no longer teach for a homogeneous group were everyone share the same view (2) immigrant student are not familiar with phenomenon and concepts as Finnish students do, therefore immigrant students required more time and teaching to learn this new knowledge and (3) for those multiculturalism become problem, if they considered it as a problem.

Reference
Graeffe, L & Lestinen L. (2011) Towards Multicultural Education in Finland. Cultural Diversity in the Classroom A European Comparison, eds Spinthourakis et al. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Germany, pp. 109-128.
Lahti, L.K. (2007).  A Visit to a Multicultural School: A Case Study in Finland. Citizenship Education in Society, eds Ross A, CiCe Publications, pp. 351-354.