Jannet van Drie
Professional activities
I work as an assistant professor at the Department of Child Development and Education of the University of Amsterdam.
In my research I focus on the learning and teaching of history. My main interest is how to foster students' historical reasoning in the classroom. I have published on historical reasoning, the learning of historical concepts, computer-supported collaborative learning, and the use of visual representations. Currently I'm focussing on the potential of collaborative learning in small groups and in whole-class discussions, and on writing in history.
Next to these research activities, I work as a teacher trainer in the Graduate School of Child Development and Education and I partcipate in the Dutch Centre for Social Studies Education.
Key Publications
Van Boxtel,C. & Van Drie, J. (2009). Enhancing historical reasoning: a key topic in Dutch history education. International Journal of Historical learning, teaching and research, 8(2),140-153.
Van Drie, J. & Van Boxtel, C. (2008). Historical reasoning: towards a framework for analyzing students’ reasoning about the past. Educational Psychology Review, 20(2), 87-110.
Van Drie, J., Van Boxtel, C., & Van der Linden, J. L. (2006). Historical reasoning in a computer-supported collaborative learning environment. In A. M. O’Donnell, C. E. Hmelo, & Erkens, G. (Eds.), Collaborative learning, reasoning and technology (pp. 266-297). Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Van Drie, J., Van Boxtel, C., Erkens, G., & Kanselaar, G. (2005). Using representational tools to support historical reasoning in computer-supported collaborative learning. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 14(1), 25-42.
Van Drie, J., Van Boxtel, C., Jaspers, J., & Kanselaar, G. (2005). Effects of representational guidance on domain specific reasoning in CSCL. Computers in Human Behavior, 21(4), 575-602.
Van Boxtel, C., & Van Drie, J. (2004). Historical reasoning: A comparison of how experts and novices contextualise historical sources. International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research, 4(2), 89- 97.
Van Drie, J., & Van Boxtel, C. (2003). Developing conceptual understanding through talk and mapping. Teaching History, 110, 27-32.
Dissertation
Van Drie, J. (2005). Learning about the pastwith new technologies. Fostering historical reasoning in computer- supported collaborative learning. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.