Pentti E. Hakkarainen (1944 – June 1, 2021) was a Lithuanian

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of Finnish origin.

Education and career

He graduated from the

University of Jyväskylä The University of Jyväskylä ( fi, Jyväskylän yliopisto) is a research university in Jyväskylä, Finland. It has its origins in the first Finnish-speaking Teacher Training College (the so-called Teacher Seminary), founded in 1863. Ar ...

in 1967, where he went on to obtain a

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and then a

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in 1970 and 1972, respectively. Hakkarainen defended his habilitated doctoral thesis in 1991. During the period of 1997-2011 he worked as professor at the

University of Oulu The University of Oulu ( fi, Oulun yliopisto) is one of the largest universities in Finland, located in the city of Oulu. It was founded on July 8, 1958. The university has around 13,000 students and 2,900 staff. 21 International Master's P ...

and was elected as vice-dean of the Department of Educational Sciences in 2006. He was a professor of

Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy ( lt, Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto Švietimo akademija or VDU ŠA) – an academical unit of Vytautas Magnus University, which specialized in preparing school teachers and other educators. Located i ...

since 2012 where he headed the Research Laboratory of Play (LUES, VMU). He is

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of '' Journal of Russian & East European Psychology'' and served on the

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s of ' and '. His research interests included creative, developmental teaching and learning in preschools, schools and higher education, narrative learning and development in play and virtual environments. He published a number of books in Finnish, English, and Lithuanian.

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* * Finnish psychologists Lithuanian psychologists Vytautas Magnus University Academic journal editors 20th-century psychologists 21st-century psychologists Living people University of Jyväskylä alumni Academic staff of the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences 1944 births {{psychologist-stub