Jeanine van Halteren

Jeanine van Halteren serves as Assistant Professor at the Department of Vocational Teacher Education within Oslo Metropolitan University's Faculty of Education and International Studies. Her office is located at Kunnskapsveien 55, Kjeller (Office KD332) with contact details +47 672 35 379 and jeanine.vanhalteren@oslomet.no. She concurrently holds the administrative role of Head of Studies for Area of responsibility 2.

Her research program centers on Vocational Education and Training in traditional crafts, investigating cultural heritage preservation, innovation in design-craft-product development, and inclusion dynamics among apprentices. Parallel work explores Aesthetics in career counselling through critical thinking, reflexivity, and creative methodologies. Subject areas span Life Stories/narratives, Art/crafts/culture, Diversity and Inclusion, and Sustainability. She actively contributes to research groups including Design Literacy, Education and Society, KunstForsk (Arts-based research), Learning in diversity perspectives, and Philosophy/Art/Culture.

Analysis of her 2019-2023 publications reveals dominant themes: career counselling for marginalized populations using metaphors and aesthetic frameworks, safeguarding traditional crafts through apprentice perspectives, and navigating cultural-technological intersections in vocational training. Her work consistently integrates social justice, narrative analysis, and reflexivity across contexts from youth mobility to disruptive global changes.

Dr. van Halteren's research ecosystem includes the Design Literacy group examining craft-innovation synergies, KunstForsk advancing arts-based methodologies, and the Learning in diversity perspective team developing inclusive qualification frameworks. These groups collectively address vocational identity formation amid technological disruption and cultural preservation challenges.