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Pasi Sahlberg
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Pasi Sahlberg is a Finnish education expert, author and professor whose work examines educational change in Finland and its lessons for other countries.
Biography
Pasi Sahlberg is a Finnish education expert, author and professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He was born on 26 October 1959 in Oulu. His previous roles include professor of practice at Harvard University and director of Finland’s Centre for International Mobility (CIMO). He has also worked at the World Bank.
His book Finnish Lessons: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland? received the Grawemeyer Award in 2013. In the book, Sahlberg examines the development of Finnish education policy, contrasting its emphasis on teachers’ professional work, instructional leadership and trust with approaches centered on competition, choice and external student testing.
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Books by Pasi Sahlberg
Finnish lessons
Finnish Lessons (2011) traces the evolution of education policies in Finland and compares them with those of the United States and other industrialized countries. It describes reforms emphasizing teachers’ professional work, instructional leadership and trust in teachers and schools rather than competition, choice and external student testing.