Marleena Mustola, Adjunct Professor and Senior Lecturer of early childhood education research at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, specializes in educational philosophy, childhood studies, and children's culture. She is currently working on research designs that combine empirical educational research with philosophy, especially in the context of childhood and children's rights. Moreover, she is interested in re-thinking and re-framing educational principles, ideas, and practices to strengthen the human-nature relationship, also through cultural products and artistic practices. She serves in the editorial board of one the leading journals in educational philosophy, Studies in Philosophy and Education, as a board member of the Finnish Network of History and Philosophy of Education, as a steering group member of BIN Norden Nordic research network on children's culture, and as a coordinator of JYU Child and Family Lab.
Mustola has broad expertise in multidisciplinary childhood studies. She received a title of docent in early childhood education research, especially children's culture, in 2023 and in PhD in art education in 2011. In 2015 she was a visiting scholar at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the co-editor of Exploring Materiality in Childhood: Body, Relations and Space published by Routledge in 2021.
