Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen — University of Helsinki

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Description of research and teaching

Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen is professor of Craft Studies at the University of Helsinki, Department of Teacher Education. She is also docent at Aalto University.

Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen has built her research program on the development and application of cognitive theories of design processes. The main focuses of the overall research is to analyse expertise in design, the nature of the design process and the role of the external representations, i.e., visualisation and sketching in the design process. In recent ten years she has been mostly interested in analysing collaboration and communication in design projects, the nature of the distributed expertise and the theory of knowledge building. The role of scaffolding in craft education settings, both scaffolding in social interaction as well as that mediated by material artifacts has been focus of her research. She has carried out three larger research projects funded by Academy of Finland: Facilitating Social Creativity through in Collaborative Designing 2003-2006 and Learning by Collaborative Designing 2007-2010 that both focused on computer supported collaborative learning. She was Principal Investigator in Handling Mind: Embodiment, Creativity and Design – research project funded by Academy of Finland 2013-2016. Recently she is working in Laboratory of Co-inquiry, co-design, co-teaching, and co-regulation (Co4-Lab) project (PI Kai Hakkarainen, coPIs Jari Lavonen, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen) funded by Academy of Finland. The newest consortion project is Innokomp: Innovation competences, co-creation, digital modeling and multimateriality (2017-2019) funded by OKM.

External positions

Docent, Aalto University

2003 → …

Keywords

516 Educational sciences

International and National Collaboration Publications and projects within past five years.

Publications 2001 2019

48 Article
31 Chapter
19 Conference contribution
3 Anthology or special issue
1 More
- 1 Conference article

Koulu keksivänä yhteisönä

Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P. & Hakkarainen, K., 26 Jan 2019, Sähköistyvä koulu: Oppiminen ja oppimateriaalit muuttuvassa tietoympäristössä. Tossavainen, T. & Löytönen, M. (eds.). Helsinki: Suomen tietokirjailijat ry, p. 79-97 19 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional

Open Access

The roles of material prototyping in collaborative design process at an elementary school

Yrjönsuuri, V. M., Kangas, K. K., Hakkarainen, K. P. J. & Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, S. P., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Design and Technology Education.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Validating Entrepreneurial Intentions Questionnaire to Assess the Impact of Entrepreneurship Education

Asghar, M. Z., Gul, F., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P. & Tasdemir, M. Z., 2019, In : Eğitim ve bilim. 44, 197, p. 383-399 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access

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A Multi-Method Case Study of Textile Craft-Design Applications – Usability and Effects on the Design Process

Riikonen, S. & Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., 1 Oct 2018, In : Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education. 17, 2, p. 217-236 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Bringing Practices of Co-Design and Making to Basic Education

Riikonen, S., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P. & Hakkarainen, K., Jun 2018, Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age: Making the Learning Sciences Count, 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2018. Kay, J. & Luckin, R. (eds.). London, UK: ISLS International Society of the Learning Sciences, Vol. Volume 1. p. 248-255 8 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access

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