Lessons from Estonia’s Education Success Story
Exploring Equity and High Performance through PISA
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Lessons from Estonia’s Education Success Story
Exploring Equity and High Performance through PISA
About this book
This book explores how Estonia, despite high levels of poverty, has transformed its education system to become Europe's top performer on PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment).
The engaging narrative uncovers reforms, mistakes and lessons learnt that have been harnessed to create a high-performing, high-equity education system, which includes social and education policies fostering equity, inclusion, learner autonomy, as well as schoolteacher and principal professionalism, autonomy and responsibility. It unearths how easy access to a wide range of data such as perceptions of well-being, autonomy and connectedness, in addition to examination results, builds internal and external accountability, and contributes to collective stakeholder efficacy.
Grounded in research from Estonia and beyond, this is an ideal read for educators, administrators, academics, university students, change agents and parents interested in school system improvement. As equity, equality and inclusion are core drivers of the Estonian education system, this book would also be of interest to those working in social justice, inclusion and diversity.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Setting the stage
- 1 History: Challenges and gifts from the past
- 2 Education system overview: What makes it work
- 3 Equity and high performance: Raising the bar and closing the gap
- 4 Curriculum: Aligning implementation with intentions
- 5 Teachers: Professional autonomy and high standards
- 6 Evaluation: Prioritising a formative approach for all
- 7 Summary and conclusions: Resilience, dissatisfaction and imagination
- Afterword: Estonia’s story and Singapore’s story
- References
- Index