An aspect often overlooked when analyzing Sweden’s precipitous fall in the annual Pisa rankings is the active role taken by researchers two decades ago in demonizing traditional teaching methods, Linderoth writes in newspaper Dagens Nyheter. An apology could help heal the deep fractures that emerged between more old-school teachers and a teacher-training regime that turned their world upside down. “It could rehabilitate teachers who managed to resist teaching trends that accentuate a teacher’s role as guide. It would allow teachers to once again view their own professional identity with pride in a historical perspective,” he writes. Within a few years Swedish schools will lack thousands of qualified teachers,” says Linderoth.

Source: The Local August 25, 2016 08:50 UTC