Biography
Tina van der Vlies is Assistant Professor History, Heritage & Education at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication. Her current research 'Why school history matters: public discourses on the purposes of history education, 1920-2020' is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO Rubicon). For this project she is affiliated with the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge (UK).
With the help of history, we can see societal challenges from new angles and in a new light. That is why Van der Vlies started to study history at the Erasmus University Rotterdam after her gymnasium graduation. She finished the master History of Society cum laude and with an extra honors trajectory. Afterwards, she went to ICLON at Leiden University and did a master’s in education (also cum laude). During her studies, she taught history in high school and gave tours in the Dutch National Museum of Education.
For her PhD trajectory Van der Vlies went back to Rotterdam. The Dutch Organization for Scientific Research funded her PhD research on the perpetuation of national narratives in English and Dutch history textbooks, 1920 – 2010. She wrote about the less visible ways of national narratives’ perpetuation by pointing out how narrated histories in textbooks overlapped and interfused. Her dissertation *Echoing Events* shows how textbook authors narrated different histories as ‘echoing events’ by interpreting them in the same way and by using the same combinations of historical analogies. They gave meaning to history with these recurring connections. Her research revealed widespread schemata and frames of references in the narration of national history.
In this way she shed new light on debates about the canonization of national narratives and complemented James Wertsch' theory on narrative templates. Since the research provided a better understanding of the potential mobilizing power of national narratives in societies, it has been awarded with several prizes along the way.
Van der Vlies presented her research at various international conferences and summer schools. For a longer research stay, she went to the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Education), the Institute of Education in London and the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories in Brighton. She also aims to integrate her research findings in her lectures and tutorials.
Email: vandervlies@eshcc.eur.nl / tv302@cam.ac.uk
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- vandervlies@eshcc.eur.nl
- Room
- M6-32
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
More information
Work
- Tina van der Vlies (2022) - Echoing Events. The Perpetuation of National Narratives in English and Dutch History Textbooks, 1920-2010 - doi: 10.14220/9783737014502 - [link]
- Maria Grever & Tina van der Vlies (2017) - Why National Narratives are Perpetuated: A literature review on new insights from history textbook research - London Review of Education, 15 (2), 286-301 - doi: 10.18546/LRE.15.2.11 - [link]
- Tina van der Vlies (2016) - Multidirectional war narratives in history textbooks - Paedagogica Historica, 52 (3), 300-314 - doi: 10.1080/00309230.2016.1153674
- Tina van der Vlies (2021) - Narrative Template - Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method, 2-8 - doi: 10.5040/9781350970878.070
- Tina van der Vlies (2022) - De Indonesische Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog in de klas - [link]
- Tina van der Vlies (2023) - The perpetuation of cultural memories in the widespread genre of history textbooks
- Tina van der Vlies (2023) - Knowledge, Power, Politics, and Public Discourses on the Purposes of School History
- Tina van der Vlies (2023) - Book Launch 'Echoing Events'
- Tina van der Vlies (2022) - First reaction to PhD candidate from Norway on his 10% seminar: ‘National history in school textbooks in the post-war era’.
- Tina van der Vlies, Tim Huijgen, Bertjaap van der Ploeg, Koos Sikkema & Laurin Thole (2022) - History beyond borders: how to deal with multiple perspectives in the classroom?
- Tina van der Vlies, Pieter de Bruijn, Michiel Bugter, Marijke Huisman & Hanneke Tuithof (2022) - Schoolboekenstrijd: gewenste geschiedenis tussen politiek en praktijk
- Tina van der Vlies (2022) - Dutch History Textbooks and the Indonesian Revolution
- Tina van der Vlies (2022) - New trends in historical research and education
- Tina van der Vlies (2021) - 'Timeless memories' in English and Dutch history education
- Tina van der Vlies (2021) - Uitdagingen voor de hedendaagse historische cultuur
- Tina van der Vlies (2022) - Georg Eckert Research Award (€5.000,-)
- Tina van der Vlies (2021) - EUR Research Prize
- Tina van der Vlies (2021) - NWO Rubicon 'Why school history matters: public discourses on the purposes of history education, 1920 – 2020'
- Tina van der Vlies (2019) - Maurits de Vroede-Prijs
- Tina van der Vlies (2016) - KNHG Award
- Tina van der Vlies (2014) - ISCHE Early Career Conference Paper Award
Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- DORDRECHT
- Description
- Lid van de Wetenschappelijke Adviesraad
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CH4050
NWO Rubicon Research Fellow
- Start date approval
- February 2022