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Anja Heikkinen is a professor of adult
education in University of Jyväskylä. She has experience
from being a teacher of mathematics and sciences and
educational administrator before the career in the
university. Her main field of study is historical and
cultural research on relations between education and
work. She has a long experience from participating and
co-ordinating international research and academic
teaching on vocational, continuing and adult education,
also from a gender perspective. Anja Heikkinen is active
in various national and international associations and
networks related to vocational and adult education, e.g.
as the chair of Finnish Association for Adult Education,
chief editor of the journal Adult Education and board of
national graduate school Education, Knowledge and
CUlture, the co-ordinator of the VET and culture-network
and as a member of ESREA, ECER (VETNET and policy
analysis), ISCHE (gender network) networks.
Among her
latest publications are
Nijhof, W. &
Heikkinen, A. & Nieuwenhuis, L. (eds). 2002. Shaping
Flexibility in Vocational Education and Training.
Dordrecht-Boston: Kluwer.
Lindgren, A. &
Heikkinen, A. (eds.) 2004. Social competences in
vocational and continuing education. Bern etc: Peter
Lang.
Husemann, R. &
Heikkinen, a. (eds.) 2004. Marketization and Governance
in vocational and continuing education. Frankfurt etc.:
Peter Lang.
Gender and the
transforming adult education theory and practice. In
Dybbroe, B. & Ollagnier, E. (eds.) 2003. Challenging
Gender in Lifelong learning. University of Roskilde.
Transformation
of Vocational Education in the Gender Perspective. In
Oelkers, J. (ed.). 2003. Futures of Education. Vol II:
Work, Education and Occupation. Bern etc.: Peter Lang.
Re-enter
initiatives in the context of integrative vocational
education. In Evans, K. & Niemeyer, B. (eds.) 2004.
Reconnection - Combating social exclusion in the light
of situated learning. Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer.
Models of
vocational education in service of policy making. In
Greinert, W.-F. & Hanf, G. (eds.) 2004. History of
vocational education in Europe. BIBB&CEDEFOP.
Evaluation as
trans-national management by projects policies. In
Journal European Educational Researcher 2/2004.
Models,
paradigms or cultures of vocational education. In
CEDEFOP Journal of Vocational Training 2/2004.
Manufacturing
the European. In Sultana, R. & Kuhn, M. (eds.) 2004.
Homo Europeaus.
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