Prof.dr. Carla van Boxtel

Endowed professor Historical culture and education

Biographical Note

Carla van Boxtel (1970) is endowed professor of Historical Culture and Education at the Center for Historical Culture of the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

She studied history and educational sciences at Utrecht University. Her dissertation on collaborative concept learning at Utrecht University (2000) was awarded by the Netherlands Educational Research Association (VOR) with the award for the best dissertation in the field of educational science. After her PhD she worked as assistant professor at the department of Educational Sciences of Utrecht University. She was editor of the much used history textbook series MeMo for secondary schools (1995-2007).
Since 2006, Carla van Boxtel works as senior researcher at the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning of the University of Amsterdam and gives lead to the Dutch Center for Social Studies Education.

In 2008 she was appointed as endowed professor of Historical Culture and Education at the Center for Historical Culture of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. This chair is established by The Netherlands Institute for Heritage and supported by the Vereniging Trustfonds EUR.
Van Boxtel published on several topics concerning the learning and teaching of history, such as historical reasoning, the learning of historical concepts, the use of visual representations such as pictures and schemas and the potential of interaction in small groups and teacher-guided whole-class discussions for learning history.

Her current research at the Center for Historical Culture focuses on heritage education. Since 2009, she conducts with Maria Grever and Stephan Klein the NWO funded research program Heritage Education, Plurality of Narratives and Shared Historical Knowledge.