Research Output per year
Personal profile
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 → …Fields of Science
- 516 Educational sciences
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
Publications 2001 2020
Unstitching the Fabric of Informal Learning: Researching Collective Quiltmaking.
Warner, L., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P. & Hakkarainen, K., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In Deborah L. Mulligan & Patrick Alan Danaher (eds) Researching within the Educational Margins. Palgrave studies in education research methods . Palgrave MacmillanResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Building Student-centric ePortfolios in Practice: Areas of Documentation in a Craft Learning Activity
Saarinen, A., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P. & Hakkarainen, K., 23 Oct 2019, In : Techne Series: Research in Sloyd Education and Craft Science A. 26, 2, p. 16-28 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
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Kōmako Quilters’ informal learning and the collective zone of proximal development: The ‘5x5 quilt’ project
Warner, L., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P. & Hakkarainen, K., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of Art & Communities. 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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, p. 79-97 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional
Open Access
Mapping the methodologies of the Craft Sciences in Finland, Sweden and Norway
Kokko, S., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Almevik, G. & Høgseth, H., 27 Sep 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Craft Research. 11, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Projects 2008 2023
AI in Learning
Niemi, H., Salmela-Aro, K., Hakkarainen, K., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Korhonen, T., Tervaniemi, M., Huotilainen, M., Ruokamo, H., Kousa, P., Harju, V. & Niu, J.
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2021
Project: Research project
INNOPLAY - Craft, design and technology (STEAM) in early childhood education
Kangas, K., Kallio, M., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Virta, K., Hilmola, A. & Ansolahti, A. B. L.
01/08/2018 → 31/07/2021
Project: Research project
Growing Mind: Educational transformations for facilitating sustainable personal, social, and institutional renewal at the digital age.
Hakkarainen, K., Korhonen, T., Lonka, K., Lavonen, J., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Juuti, K., Salo, L., Reinius, H. M. I. & Sormunen, K.
15/01/2018 → 31/12/2023
Project: Research project
INNOKOMP- Innovaatiokompetensseja: yhteiskehittely, digitaalinen mallintaminen ja monimateriaalisuus käsityönopetuksen uudistajana
Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Kallio, M., Riikonen, S., Kangas, K., Kokko, S., Härkki, T., Salovaara, M. & Salonen, N.
01/08/2017 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research project
Co4-Lab: Laboratory of Co-Inquiry, Co-Design, Co-Teaching and Co-Regulation (Co4-Lab)
Hakkarainen, K., Lavonen, J., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Salmela-Aro, K., Juuti, K., Korhonen, T., Sormunen, K., Koskinen-Salmia, A., Kangas, K., Vaahtokari, A., Muhonen, S., Myllyntausta, S., Stenberg, K., Maskonen, T., Salonen, N., Riikonen, S., Lahti, H. & Salo, L.
01/09/2015 → 31/08/2019
Project: Research project
Activities 2002 2019
Virpi Yliverronen
Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen (Supervisor)13 Sep 2019
Activity: Examination types › Supervisor or co-supervisor of doctoral thesis
Solja Upolan väitöskirjan vastaväittäjä, Lapin yliopisto
Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen (Opponent)25 Jan 2019
Activity: Examination types › Opponent of doctoral dissertation
Make&Learn.
Sirpa Kokko (Attendee), Sini Riikonen (Attendee), Kaiju Kangas (Attendee), Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen (Attendee)17 Sep 2019 → 20 Sep 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Piia-Riitta Stenberg väitöskirjan ohjaaja
Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen (Supervisor)15 Mar 2019
Activity: Examination types › Supervisor or co-supervisor of doctoral thesis
Helena Tokkosen väitöskirjan esitarkastaja, Oulun yliopisto
Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen (Pre-examiner)31 Aug 2018
Activity: Examination types › Pre-examiner of doctoral thesis