{"id":77,"date":"2022-12-29T21:57:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T20:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virbonus.rhetor.fi\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:03:11","slug":"who-is-mika-hietanen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/virbonus.rhetor.fi\/eng\/pure-rhetoric\/who-is-mika-hietanen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Educator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/virbonus.rhetor.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MH181122TNHS5b-788x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Prof. Hietanen. Photo: Hassan Salah, Tunis, November 18, 2022.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prof. Hietanen lives in Sweden and speaks Swedish, Finnish, English, Scandinavian (based on bokm\u00e5l and Swedish) and colloquial German. He is the world\u2019s only university lecturer in rhetoric with a Finnish citizenship. Has trained thousands of people in rhetoric and argumentation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Associate Professor, Doctor of Theology (New Testament exegesis), Master of Arts (Rhetoric, Argumentation theory, and the Philosophy of language), teaching exam in&nbsp;<em>speech communication<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Awarded the title <em>Excellent teacher<\/em> (Uppsala University) and recipient of the Pedagogical Prize of Uppsala University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expert<em>(*)<\/em> in rhetoric, argumentation, exegetics and distance learning. Studied at \u00c5bo Akademi, University of Helsinki, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Westf\u00e4lische Wilhelms-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnster, and Misjonsh\u00f8yskolen. (<em>*)Published papers in international academic peer-reviewed journals in these four fields.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The university portfolio includes (Aug. 2025) 155 academic courses at different universities, 22 continuing education courses and a number of guest lectures and pedagogical  projects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>LinkedIn <\/em>profile:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mikahietanen\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mikahietanen<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Lucris <\/em>profile (research activities):&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.research.lu.se\/sv\/persons\/mika-hietanen\">https:\/\/portal.research.lu.se\/sv\/persons\/mika-hietanen<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As an introduction to prof. Hietanen\u2019s general view on rhetoric, please se the following essay, in Swedish, \u2018<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/portal.research.lu.se\/files\/132382536\/HIETANEN_2022_Retorikens_tta_dimensioner.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Eight Dimensions of Rhetoric<\/a>\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virbonus.rhetor.fi\/eng\/pure-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virbonus.rhetor.fi\/eng\/pure-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virbonus.rhetor.fi\/eng\/pure-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virbonus.rhetor.fi\/eng\/pure-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virbonus.rhetor.fi\/eng\/pure-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/virbonus.rhetor.fi\/eng\/pure-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/virbonus.rhetor.fi\/eng\/pure-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virbonus.rhetor.fi\/eng\/pure-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}