ESPOO MAGAZINE 4/2020
A MAGAZINE FOR ESPOO RESIDENTS
A MAGAZINE FOR ESPOO RESIDENTS
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Every student<br />
should feel that<br />
they can make<br />
a difference.<br />
Aada Ilvonen is<br />
studying in the<br />
music programme at<br />
Tapiolan lukio. In her<br />
opinion, the upper<br />
secondary school<br />
should support not<br />
only the students’<br />
own interests but<br />
also their opportunities<br />
to influence<br />
matters.<br />
“Lessons can be held in a cinema, for example,” says Principal<br />
Pekka Piri, describing the School as a Service model.<br />
The school is not a building<br />
but a service provider<br />
Haukilahden lukio in Espoo is the first<br />
upper secondary school in Finland<br />
to introduce the School as a Service<br />
model in accordance with the new<br />
core curriculum. It is based on the<br />
idea that the school is part of the surrounding<br />
community, and teaching<br />
can take place also in other places<br />
than in traditional classrooms.<br />
The number of students at<br />
Haukilahden luio has grown by<br />
around 50 per cent over the past<br />
four years, which is why it is important<br />
to find new facilities nearby.<br />
“Lessons could be held almost<br />
anywhere, for example in cinemas,”<br />
says Pekka Piri, principal of<br />
Haukilahden luio.<br />
The students of Haukilahden lukio<br />
have not yet studied in a cinema, but<br />
Aalto University’s facilities have been<br />
in their frequent use.<br />
“The university’s physics, chemistry<br />
and visual arts facilities were the<br />
first ones we used,” Piri continues.<br />
The School as a Service model<br />
also enables close teaching cooperation<br />
with the university. Therefore,<br />
the students of Haukilahden lukio<br />
are eager to choose Aalto University<br />
courses, programming and debating<br />
skills being the most popular among<br />
them.<br />
The students can use credits they<br />
have earned from university courses<br />
later when doing university studies.<br />
“Our cooperation with the university<br />
is mutual. For example, Aalto<br />
staff members have followed the<br />
classes of upper secondary school<br />
students,” says the principal.<br />
Upper secondary school students,<br />
on the other hand, have been able<br />
to participate in, for example, public<br />
defence events of doctoral theses.<br />
“The defenders of the doctoral<br />
theses have told upper secondary<br />
school students how they have<br />
worked their way from comprehensive<br />
school to the top of an academic<br />
career.<br />
22 A magazine for Espoo residents
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