Hannu Heikkinen

Hannu L. T. Heikkinen is working as a professor of education in the Finnish Institute for Educational Research of University of Jyväskylä, Finland. In connection with the ECER conference series, he has the distinction of having been involved in every ECER conference since 1996. He has been particularly active in the EERA network 1 Professional Learning and Development, serving as one of its convenors since 2014. Heikkinen has studied the relationship between theory and practice in educational research, writing methodological reviews related especially to action research and narrative research. Over the past decade, he has focused on education for planetary well-being, supported by his research on (practical) wisdom as an aim of education.