Approaching the renewed Finnish basic education curriculum as a potential and an option for aesthetics
This article provides an overview of how aesthetics is treated in the current Finnish basic education core curriculum document. Relatively little research has been conducted on aesthetics in Finnish curricula, particularly from an interdisciplinary approach. In the broader picture, the position of...
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This article provides an overview of how aesthetics is treated in the current Finnish basic education core curriculum document. Relatively little research has been conducted on aesthetics in Finnish curricula, particularly from an interdisciplinary approach. In the broader picture, the position of aesthetics and the appreciation of arts subjects in curricula has paradoxically weakened globally over recent decades, particularly in English-speaking cultures. At the same time, the significance of aesthetics has increased in postmodern culture with, for instance, increasingly more commercial brands. Finland has a broad national core curriculum, and although aesthetics (as a school subject) is not officially part of it the traditional arts subjects (arts, music, crafts), aspects of aesthetics are nevertheless involved in the curriculum. In this study, we investigate how aspects of aesthetics feature in the renewed Finnish curriculum text for basic education. Our analysis shows that only a few specific references to aesthetics can be found in the Finnish renewed curriculum. Conceptually, the lack of postmodern aesthetics is noticeable, particularly in the subject of art, where one can see features of it without the concept being explicitly mentioned. In order to successfully incorporate aesthetics into basic education curricula, we conclude that the subject needs to better reflect notions of participation, self-expression, and divergent thinking.
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| spelling | doaj-art-2f7fd0780f064a41b2c7963ff793c03a2025-08-20T02:06:26ZdanMalmö University PressEducare2004-51902020-03-01110.24834/educare.2020.1.3Approaching the renewed Finnish basic education curriculum as a potential and an option for aestheticsKauko Pekka Komulainen0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6736-3688Sara Sintonen1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-0116Seija Kairavuori2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8957-3221Aleksi Ojala3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2945-655XUniversity of HelsinkiUniversity of HelsinkiUniversity of HelsinkiUniversity of Helsinki This article provides an overview of how aesthetics is treated in the current Finnish basic education core curriculum document. Relatively little research has been conducted on aesthetics in Finnish curricula, particularly from an interdisciplinary approach. In the broader picture, the position of aesthetics and the appreciation of arts subjects in curricula has paradoxically weakened globally over recent decades, particularly in English-speaking cultures. At the same time, the significance of aesthetics has increased in postmodern culture with, for instance, increasingly more commercial brands. Finland has a broad national core curriculum, and although aesthetics (as a school subject) is not officially part of it the traditional arts subjects (arts, music, crafts), aspects of aesthetics are nevertheless involved in the curriculum. In this study, we investigate how aspects of aesthetics feature in the renewed Finnish curriculum text for basic education. Our analysis shows that only a few specific references to aesthetics can be found in the Finnish renewed curriculum. Conceptually, the lack of postmodern aesthetics is noticeable, particularly in the subject of art, where one can see features of it without the concept being explicitly mentioned. In order to successfully incorporate aesthetics into basic education curricula, we conclude that the subject needs to better reflect notions of participation, self-expression, and divergent thinking. https://publicera.kb.se/educare/article/view/45299aestheticsarts educationbasic educationcurriculumFinnish education |
| spellingShingle | Kauko Pekka Komulainen Sara Sintonen Seija Kairavuori Aleksi Ojala Approaching the renewed Finnish basic education curriculum as a potential and an option for aesthetics Educare aesthetics arts education basic education curriculum Finnish education |
| title | Approaching the renewed Finnish basic education curriculum as a potential and an option for aesthetics |
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| title_short | Approaching the renewed Finnish basic education curriculum as a potential and an option for aesthetics |
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