Presentation at Cavan Institute (Ireland) 3.10.2014 9.30-10.45 Session 1: Overview of the Finnish VET - Imprisoned by preconceptions (Dialogical method), topic: Preconceptions and assumptions of the Finnish VET - Finnish education and VET system in nutshell - Suspend wonder (Dialogical method), topic: Changed preconceptions and assumptions 11.15- 13.00 Session 2: Dialogical learning community as framework for goal- orientated learning, teaching and evaluation - Orientation to dialogical learning community - Chaining/ linking (Dialogical method); topic: Development of goal-orientated learning, teaching and evaluation

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3 October 2014
Cavan Institute,
Ireland/
Senior Lecturer
Sanna Ruhalahti

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3. English: Kokko (name) gather the whole kokko (midsummer
fire)! The whole kokko? The whole kokko.
Finnish: Kokko, kokoo koko kokko kokoon! Koko kokkoko?
Koko kokko.
English: Hilja is a woman who says to another woman called
Hilja to be quiet. And she says is so quetly that Hilja can’t hear
how quietly Hilja says “be quiet”
Finnish: Hiljaa Hilja sanoi Hiljalle hiljaa niin hiljaa ettei Hilja
kuullut miten hiljaa Hilja sanoi Hiljalle hiljaa.
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4. HAMK University of Applied
Sciences
▪Multidisciplinary UAS with 29 bachelor-level
degree programmes, 7 master-level
degree programmes
▪Around 8000 students
▪Units in 7 locations
Professional Teacher Education Unit
•Professional teacher trainig at HAMK was established
in 1959
•The largest of the five professional techer education
units in Finland
•Number of teacher students 950
•Number of staff 90
•Annual turnover €6 million
•Director: Seija Mahlamäki-Kultanen
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5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uun6RlJSWzA
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11. Three different kinds of
Qualifications
• Vocational Qualifications (52)
demonstrate the knowledge and skills required achieving
professional skill.
• Further Vocational Qualifications (190)
demonstrate the professional skill required of professional workers.
• Specialist Vocational Qualifications (132)
demonstrate a command of the most demanding tasks in the field.
(The amount of the different kinds of Qualifications: Vocational
Qualifications 52, Further Vocational Qualifications 190 and
Specialist Vocational Qualifications 132)
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18. Sources and more information:
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