dr. Marije van Amelsvoort

Bio

I am an assistant professor at the department of Communication and Cognition, and Program Director of our Academic Teacher Training program (Universitaire Lerarenopleiding Tilburg, ULT)

I've always be interested in how people learn.  I love creating an educational environment in collaboration with schools to teach future teachers. I love doing research into how people learn. And I think I'm privileged to have a job in which I can keep on learning. 

Expertise

My research is aimed at different aspects of learning. I have been working on computer-supported collaborative learning and the role of visual representations in argumentation-based learning.

My current research is aimed at whether, and if so, how visualisations framed in different moralities can change a person's position on a topic. I have a special interest in learning about environmental issues.  

Courses

• Didactic and Pedagogy
• Didactic and Pedagogy
• General Didactics / Teaching Methodology
• Master Classes

Recent publications

1. Hope Or Fear? Children's Responses To Climate Change Fiction

   Goudbeek, M., van Amelsvoort, M., van der Beek, S., Borst, R., Claassen, S., Koolen, R., & Looij, P. (2023). Hope Or Fear? Children's Responses To Climate Change Fiction. In Emotions 2023 Program Book

2. Levensbeschouwelijke vorming in het openbaar voortgezet onderwijs

   Heijstek-Hofman, A., van Amelsvoort, M., & van Dijk-Groeneboer, M. C. H. (2022). Levensbeschouwelijke vorming in het openbaar voortgezet onderwijs. Tijdschrift voor religie, recht en beleid, 13(1), 34-49.

3. Lifting the curse of knowing - How feedback improves perspective-taki…

   Damen, D., van Amelsvoort, M., van der Wijst, P., Pollmann, M., & Krahmer, E. (2021). Lifting the curse of knowing: How feedback improves perspective-taking. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(6), 1054-1069.

4. Learning How to Throw Darts Effects of Modeling Type and Reflection o…

   van der Loo, J., Krahmer, E., & van Amelsvoort, M. (2021). Learning How to Throw Darts Effects of Modeling Type and Reflection on Novices' Dart-Throwing Skills. Journal of Motor Behavior, 53(1), 105-116.

5. Can the curse of knowing be lifted? The influence of explicit perspec…

   Damen, D., van der Wijst, P., van Amelsvoort, M., & Krahmer, E. (2020). Can the curse of knowing be lifted? The influence of explicit perspective-focus instructions on readers’ perspective-taking. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition, 46(8), 1407-1423.