Hannu Heikkinen

Hannu L. T. Heikkinen is a Professor of Education in the Finnish Institute for Educational Research at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He can be described as a practice-oriented researcher, working particularly within the frameworks of action research and narrative research, developing educational practices in a participatory manner together with teachers and other professionals.

On the other hand, his work also reflects a philosophical touch, which is evident, for example, in his research on the purpose of education, such as the perspective of flourishing as the general purpose of education, the knowledge interests of education, and the idea of education as praxis, based on Aristotle's and Marx's interpretations of praxis. He has been doing research on mentoring and professional development of teachers, as well as on learning at work and for work. He has also published on issues related to the theory of recognition with respect to learning and teaching, as well as curriculum theory. Heikkinen's recent work has involved studies of sustainability education, especially from the perspective of education for planetary well-being. 

He has been actively involved in the European Educational Research Association (EERA), serving as a convenor of EERA Network 1 for over a decade.

In his list of publications, Heikkinen has more than 300 publications (articles, book chapters, anthologies and books). As a columnist for several newspapers and professional journals, Heikkinen has also written a lot of popular texts. According to Google Scholar there are more than 18 000 citations to his publications, with h-index 60.