I Googled.The new curriculum places an emphasis on transversal competences in the instruction of subjects. These competences are based on different perspectives. Study, working life and active citizenship require a command of different knowledge and skills as well as competences in combining these. Each subject promotes transversal competence skills.
The aims set for transversal competences include thinking and learning-to-learn, interaction and expression skills, and multiliteracy, which is the ability to produce and interpret variety of different texts. Transversal competences also include managing daily life and taking care of oneself. Other aims of transversal competences are cultural competence, interaction and self-expression, ICT competence, working life competence and entrepreneurship as well as participation, involvement and building a sustainable future.
The aims of transversal competences are specified in the National Core Curriculum for Basic Education 2014, and municipalities and schools have been able to further define the competences
Transversal competence seems to me to chime with Bernstein's language codes. I quote "interaction and expression skills, and multiliteracy, which is the ability to produce and interpret variety of different texts". The two 'codes' relate on the one hand to social class or ethnic solidarity, and on the other hand to the very explicit speech habits of academics with value placed upon individuals as individuals. I imagine, although I may have misunderstood, that the Finnish new curriculum by " expression skills" means expression of feelings which is largely the province of the so-called restricted' code. There is a translation issue here perhaps, and the word should be not 'expression' but 'expressive'.
Do you agree that education should include emotional education? Those texts ,practical exercises, drama, and so on which teach emotional competence empower children who if this important area is neglected may become emotionally incompetent and develop some mental illness, or even criminality. Explicitly, I'd say that children need to empathise with ethnic classes and social classes other than what they are accustomed to, and feel comfortable in the company of a variety of others.