Delavnica je potekala v angleškem jeziku.

Hannu L. T. Heikkinen is a Professor of Education in the Finnish Institute of Educational Research. He is an experienced teacher and teacher educator, and calls himself as a ‘hang-around-philosopher’ of education. Recently, his research interests have focused on sustainability education and practical wisdom as an educational goal.

In this workshop, a seemingly simple question is asked: what it the aim or the purpose of teacher education? Is the answer the same or different if we remove the word ‘teacher’ and simply talk about the purpose of education?

The workshop will be organised in such a way that people with different backgrounds can participate. So you don’t need to be a philosopher or a teacher educator to join the workshop. The answer to the question will be built on the basis of the participants’ responses, which will be mirrored in Aristotle’s ideas on the good life, Gert Biesta’s views on the purpose of education and the notion of flourishing as the goal of education, formulated by Kristjan Kristjansson, which also seems to have been recently taken up by the OECD.