Stephan Klein (1964) is a post-doc at the Center for Historical Culture of the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. His research focuses on the concepts and ideas of heritage educators and history teachers with regard to using heritage in education. The project is part of the NWO-funded research on Heritage Education, Plurality of Narratives and Shared Historical Knowledge (Prof. dr. M.C.R. Grever and Prof. dr. C.A.M van Boxtel).
He studied history at Utrecht University. His dissertation explained the classical and modern republican ideas of the patriot movement in the Netherlands, shortly before the French revolution [Patriots republikanisme. Politieke cultuur in Nederland (1766-1787)]. Afterwards he taught history and civics at a secondary school and was appointed as history teacher educator at Leiden University in 2002. Since then he works on history curriculum development and does research on historical thinking of teachers. He is also editor of a history schoolbook for upper secondary education.
His research interests include 18th century political and cultural history and early modern maritime heritage of the Netherlands (VOC and WIC).
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