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Professor Jeroen Dekker is affiliated with the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, specifically the Education in Culture department. His research focuses on the history of education, emotions in early modern Europe, and educational secularization. He has authored influential books like Children’s Emotions in Europe, 1500-1900 and contributed to over 200 peer-reviewed publications. His work addresses topics such as parental and children’s emotional expressions, historical pedagogical practices, and the visualization of emotions in cultural contexts.
Key research interests include the intersection of religious and secular education systems, the evolution of emotional discourse in childhood, and the methodologies of historical research on emotions. His Visual History book series explores how emotions were documented and interpreted across centuries.
Professor Dekker has been actively involved in academic activities, including organizing conferences, editorial work for Paedagogica Historica, and public lectures on children’s emotions in early modern Europe. He has supervised 25 academic works and engaged in media outreach through radio interviews and journal contributions.
His work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to quality education and reducing inequalities through historical analysis of educational systems.
