Kimmo Kuortti

ABSTRACT
The Finnish government’s education export (FGEE) programme, which was initiated in 2010, seeks to promote and coordinate education as an export product. Until recently, research on the Finnish education export has focused on individual education sectors, with only passing consideration of the governmental rationality of education export. Drawing on Bacchi’s (2009) post-structural policy analysis, I use the FGEE documents as a material starting point, as ‘practical texts’ (Bacchi… Näytä lisää

ABSTRACT
The Finnish government’s education export (FGEE) programme, which was initiated in 2010, seeks to promote and coordinate education as an export product. Until recently, research on the Finnish education export has focused on individual education sectors, with only passing consideration of the governmental rationality of education export. Drawing on Bacchi’s (2009) post-structural policy analysis, I use the FGEE documents as a material starting point, as ‘practical texts’ (Bacchi 2009, 34; Bacchi and Goodwin 2016, 34) to study how education export discourse problematises public education and produces a contextualised governmental rationality. Contributing to the growing body of knowledge on emerging global, national, and local public – private structures, the paper illustrates how minor policy strands such as the FGEE programme can be seen as production sites in which education practices and their governmental rationalities are constructed. Näytä vähemmän

Wenströn, Sanna & Kuortti, Kimmo. 2021. Enthusiasm as a Driving Force in Teachers’ Work. In Hyvärinen, S,. Äärelä, T. & Uusiautti, S (Eds). Positive Education and Work: Less Struggling, More Flourishing. Cambridge Scholars Publishing., 308 – 331.

This is a visionary article mapping a possible future, but based on solid, lived history. Some of the issues described here have already become reality. Enjoy!

On the basis of what has been written on benchmarking in general, this article considers the concept in the tertiary marketing education context by investigating educational cooperation possibilities using systematic curriculum comparisons between two marketing departments located in Finland and in New Zealand. While relatively little research focusing on international educational benchmarking is available, the study attempts to pave the way for benchmarking between universities and other… Näytä lisää

On the basis of what has been written on benchmarking in general, this article considers the concept in the tertiary marketing education context by investigating educational cooperation possibilities using systematic curriculum comparisons between two marketing departments located in Finland and in New Zealand. While relatively little research focusing on international educational benchmarking is available, the study attempts to pave the way for benchmarking between universities and other tertiary institutions that wish to develop their research and teaching.
This article offers creative benchmarking, a variation on traditional benchmarking techniques. The key findings of the project indicate that educational benchmarking comparisons are especially beneficial and valuable in planning new course content, introducing innovative teaching methods, re-structuring the curriculum and exploring possibilities for future cooperation. Furthermore, the results of the study suggest that motivation for intrinsic cooperation building seems to be higher when the partners genuinely know each other. Näytä vähemmän

Our main aim is to investigate benchmarking and its applicability to curriculum comparison and to cooperation building in higher education. Through mapping the concept of benchmarking in the higher education context we15 have arrived at our own benchmarking (or benchlearning) model for exploring educational cooperation possibilities by systematic curriculum comparison.The “creative“ refers to the explorative and inventive aspects of the model, which emphasise the idea of discovering something… Näytä lisää

Our main aim is to investigate benchmarking and its applicability to curriculum comparison and to cooperation building in higher education. Through mapping the concept of benchmarking in the higher education context we15 have arrived at our own benchmarking (or benchlearning) model for exploring educational cooperation possibilities by systematic curriculum comparison.The “creative“ refers to the explorative and inventive aspects of the model, which emphasise the idea of discovering something new and creating new ways to cooperate. Näytä vähemmän