The school must learn more about – Opinion / Submitter

Chef Gotlands Allehanda The article of debate in Svenska Dagbladet is a torrid countdown to the Swedish school experience that has so badly struck and prompted Swedish students to cope with comparisons of international knowledge even as we invest a lot of resources at school. The writers – including the high school teacher and his dear colleague Isak Skogstad, integrative medicine professor Martin Ingvar and Professor Inger Enkvist (as often crowned on this page) – describe how the school's working methods Swedish are contrary to the conclusions of research on how to do well in education:

"Many studies have highlighted the link between one's own work and poorer results, while research in psychology may explain why, when students at the beginning of the cycle must assume a major responsibility for their learning, their working memory can be overburdened, affecting learning and motivation, and the teacher can avoid this by clearly structuring what needs to be learned and communicating it at a pace that students can handle. "

There are students from home without the tradition of studying which are the most difficult in a school like Swedish. Their difficulties clearly explain the measures of knowledge.

"In addition, the family background of students has grown in importance and the difference in outcomes between students based on the origin of migration is greater in Sweden than in the OECD countries."

It will not be easy to reverse the trend. A change will require a monumental effort and it will take several years for the change to take off. But we know what to do. First of all, it is to put an end to the harmful effects of the Swedish National Agency for Education on Programs and Schools. A work transcended by a vision of knowledge that allows him to affirm that "knowledge can not be transmitted or transferred from one individual to another, from one teacher to another." Thoughts that led to the creation of a school where students are generally expected to conduct their own education.

The change will be difficult and slow. But he is always in a hurry. For Isak Skogstad and others, let's note:

"The more we wait, the more young people will grow up in Sweden without the knowledge to become knowledgeable and empowered people who can succeed and participate in society."