History, social science and geography education in finnish schools and teacher education

Abstract

The article highlights the main characteristics of the humanities, or school subjects having a humanistic orientation, from the point of view of geography, history and social science in comprehensive schools. The educational objectives for these three subjects in the present National Core Curriculum for Basic Education are focused on the development of students' thinking skills and understanding of the nature of historical, societal or geographical knowledge, and skills of using, for example, historical sources.