The representation of minorities in the Finnish National Core Curriculum for history

Figures & data

Table 1. Key content areas in grades 4–6.

Key content area	Topics
1) Prehistoric era and the birth of civilization	The hunter-gatherer culture, the revolution of farming culture, the birth of civilization.
2) Ancient times and the heritage of the classical period	The dawn of democracy in Greece and the Roman society, the settlement of the Nordic countries.
3) Middle Ages	The medieval worldview, cultural similarities and differences in the East and the West, the dawn of the historical era in Finland.
4) The revolution of the modern times	Changes in science, arts, and people’s beliefs.
5) Finland as a part of Sweden	The development in Finland in the 17^th and the 18^th century.

(National Core Curriculum, 2014), p. 276

Table 2. Key content areas in grades 7–9.

Key content area	Topics
1) The origins and development of the industrial society	Industrialization and its consequences to people and nature
2) People changing the world	Ideologies and their significance and consequences
3) Creating, building, and defending Finland	Identity-building during the autonomy, beginning of the independent Finland
4) The Great War era	World Wars, Cold War, human rights issues, Holocaust
5) Building the welfare state	The origins of the current way of life in Finland, change in the economic structure
6) The origins of the world politics of today	The shared history of developed and developing countries, contemporary political tensions

(National Core Curriculum, 2014), p. 447–448

National Core Curriculum. (2014). National core curriculum for basic education. Finnish National Board of Education.

 Google Scholar