All students in Finnish basic education do not participate in the school’s worldview education, i.e. religious education or subject of ethics, but replace it in the teaching organized by their own religious community.
I write about the phenomenon in the recent Katsomukset.fi blog together with doctoral researcher Jussi Ikkala. We approach the topic from the point of view of Islamic religious education. Our article on the replacing and supplementary religious education provided in the mosques has been published in book Suomalaiset muslimit, published in the spring of 2022.
Read more in Katsomukset.fi blog! (in Finnish)