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Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: We can learn from Finland's forested classrooms Mon Jan 16, 2017 6:28 pm | |
| It is lunch time at the University of Eastern Finland's teacher training lab school in North Karelia, a lush forest and lake district on the Russian border.
Fourth-grade children race to the cafeteria in their stockinged feet, laughing, hugging, practicing dance steps and cavorting as they head for the cafeteria. One girl does a full handstand in the hallway. A distinguished-looking professor beams at the procession and doles out high-fives to the children. He is Heikki Happonen, head of the school and a career childhood educator.
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