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

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n educational psychologist of Finnish origin.

Education and career

He graduated from the University of Jyväskylä in 1967, where he went on to obtain a master's degree and then a Ph.D. 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 and was elected as

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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 editor-in-chief of ''

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'' and served on the editorial boards 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