Nice to get a perspective on this from Finland. "In Finland the educational system, as it is today, was build slowly. It is still strongly relying on the work of Uno Cygnaeus ( 1810-1888 ) who was influenced by the early European 'constructivist' Pestalozzi ( 1746 - 1827 ) and Froebel ( 1782 - 1852 ). The idea that children learn the best when they areactive and build things was not really invented by John Dewey or Piaget - they only were able to present the idea in a language of positivist science, when the earlier thinkers thought themselves as 'pedagogues' or educational philosophers." So there you go.
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