About
Blanca Estela Braña de Hvidsten is a vocational pedagogue with expertise in higher vocational education, vocational teachers’ pedagogical and vocational-didactic competence, and adult learning processes. Her work focuses on how vocational teachers develop competence, and how this is expressed in profession-oriented teaching, assessment, and educational quality.
Braña de Hvidsten’s academic work is grounded in sociocultural learning theory, andragogy, and transformative learning. Central to her work is the relationship between vocational knowledge, learning in communities of practice, and vocational teachers’ professional practice. The historical development of higher vocational education provides an important perspective for understanding its distinctive character, social mandate, and place in the education system.
Braña de Hvidsten has contributed to establishing higher vocational education as a research field at OsloMet. Her background in biotechnology, food biochemistry, research, and industry provides a practice-oriented and research-based foundation for her work in the field.
Fields of Study
Subject areas
Tertiary Vocational School Teachers. Higher Vocational Pedagogy, Adult Pedagogy, Higher Vocational Didactics, Storyline, Transformative Learning, Visible learning. Malcolm S. Knowles, Jack Mezirow.
Research groups
Publications and research
Textbooks
Hvidsten, Blanca Estela Braña de
;
Follestad, Anette Lund
(2024).
Yrkespedagogikk for lærere i høyere yrkesfaglig utdanning.
ISBN: 9788245045970.
304 p.
Fagbokforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3468761
