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1880
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Overview

Kai Hakkarainen is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research spans multiple fields including social sciences, psychology, and computer science, with a focus on education and its intersection with technology and psychology. The main fields of study documented include social sciences with 49 publications, psychology with 32, and computer science with 29. Subfields emphasize education (37 publications), developmental and educational psychology (17), computer science applications (14), mechanical engineering (10), and information systems (7).

Hakkarainen's research topics reflect a strong interest in educational practices, tech integration in learning, and teacher development. Notable topics include innovative teaching and learning methods, design education and practice, teacher education and leadership studies, collaborative teaching and inclusion, teaching and learning programming, digital literacy in education, and educational environments and student outcomes.

Their recent papers illustrate a consistent engagement with collaborative and transformative educational approaches. Key publications include:

  • Co-teaching in non-linear projects: A contextualised model of co-teaching to support educational change, 2020, Teaching and Teacher Education
  • Design Thinking in Elementary Students' Collaborative Lamp Designing Process, 2023, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Developing students' digital competences through collaborative game design, 2021, Computers & Education
  • Bringing maker practices to school: tracing discursive and materially mediated aspects of student teams' collaborative making processes, 2020, International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
  • Teachers as transformative agents in changing school culture, 2022, Teaching and Teacher Education

Frequent publication venues for Hakkarainen include Helda (University of Helsinki) with 7 publications, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research (3), Teaching and Teacher Education (2), International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (2), and Learning Environments Research (2).

Hakkarainen collaborates regularly with colleagues in the field. Key frequent co-authors include Tiina Korhonen (24 joint works), Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen (22), Hanna Reinius (7), Kaiju Kangas (7), and Netta Tiippana (7).

Best Publications

  • Models of Innovative Knowledge Communities and Three Metaphors of Learning

    Sami Paavola;Lasse Lipponen;Kai Hakkarainen

  • The Knowledge Creation Metaphor--An Emergent Epistemological Approach to Learning.

    Sami Paavola;Kai Hakkarainen

  • Communities of Networked Expertise: Professional and Educational Perspectives

    Kai Hakkarainen;Tuire Palonen;Sami Paavola;Erno Lehtinen

  • Patterns of participation and discourse in elementary students’ computer-supported collaborative learning

    Lasse Lipponen;Marjaana Rahikainen;Marjaana Rahikainen;Jiri Altti Lallimo;Kai Hakkarainen

  • A knowledge-practice perspective on technology-mediated learning

    Kai Hakkarainen

  • The Dark Side of Internet Use: Two Longitudinal Studies of Excessive Internet Use, Depressive Symptoms, School Burnout and Engagement Among Finnish Early and Late Adolescents.

    Katariina Salmela-Aro;Katja Upadyaya;Katja Upadyaya;Kai Hakkarainen;Kirsti Lonka

  • Epistemological foundations for CSCL: a comparison of three models of innovative knowledge communities

    Sami Paavola;Lasse Lipponen;Kai Hakkarainen

  • Students' skills and practices of using ICT: results of a national assessment in Finland

    Kai Hakkarainen;Liisa Ilomáki;Lasse Lipponen;Hanni Muukkonen

  • Epistemology of Inquiry and Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

    Kai Hakkarainen;Lasse Lipponen;Sanna Järvelä

  • Practices and orientations of CSCL

    Lasse Lipponen;Kai Hakkarainen;Sami Paavola

  • Progressive Inquiry in a Computer-Supported Biology Class

    Kai Hakkarainen

  • The Interrogative Model of Inquiry and Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

    Kai Pekka Juhani Hakkarainen;Matti Tapani Sintonen

  • EMERGENCE OF PROGRESSIVE-INQUIRY CULTURE IN COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

    Kai Pekka Juhani Hakkarainen

  • Entrepreneurship as a twenty-first century skill: Entrepreneurial alertness and intention in the transition to adulthood

    Martin Obschonka;Kai Hakkarainen;Kirsti Lonka;Katariina Salmela-Aro

  • Collaborative technology for facilitating progressive inquiry: future learning environment tools

    Hanni Muukkonen;Kai Hakkarainen;Minna Lakkala

  • Media multitasking is associated with distractibility and increased prefrontal activity in adolescents and young adults

    Mona Emilia Moisala;Viljami R. Salmela;Lauri Hietajärvi;E. Salo

  • Tutkiva oppiminen. Älykkään toiminnan rajat ja niiden ylittäminen

    Kai Hakkarainen;Kirsti Lonka;Lasse Lipponen

  • Tutkiva oppiminen käytännössä: matkaopas opettajille

    Kai Hakkarainen;Marianne Bollström-Huttunen;Riikka Pyysalo;Kirsti Lonka

  • Collaboration patterns in computer supported collaborative designing

    Henna Lahti;Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen;Kai Hakkarainen

  • Kolme näkökulmaa asiantuntijuuden tutkimiseen

    Kai Hakkarainen;Tuire Palonen;Sami Paavola

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirsti Lonka
Kirsti Lonka University of Helsinki
Erno Lehtinen
Erno Lehtinen University of Turku
Katariina Salmela-Aro
Katariina Salmela-Aro University of Helsinki
Kimmo Alho
Kimmo Alho University of Helsinki
Carl Bereiter
Carl Bereiter University of Toronto
Marlene Scardamalia
Marlene Scardamalia University of Toronto
Sanna Järvelä
Sanna Järvelä University of Oulu
Synnöve Carlson
Synnöve Carlson Aalto University
Minna Huotilainen
Minna Huotilainen University of Helsinki
Gustav Kuhn
Gustav Kuhn Plymouth University

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