Veli-Matti Värri, PhD, professor of education (philosophy of education and teacher education) is a philosopher whose expertise consists of the central issues of educational philosophy and theory, teacher education, ethics of education and philosophy of dialogue. Most of Värri’s publications deals with the basic questions of educational ethics and the critique on instrumental rationality in education. His monograph Hyvä kasvatus – kasvatus hyvään, 1997 (Good Education – Education for Good) has reached its fifth edition in 2004. In his latest monograph Kasvatus ekokriisin aikakaudella (Education in the Age of Ecological Crisis) Värri´s main interest has been to re-conceptualize the ontological, socio-cultural and ethical reference points for constituting ecological education in the sphere of global capitalism.
