Niklas Ammert

Niklas Ammert is deputy vice-chancellor at Linnaeus University. He is a Professor of History (History Didactics, History Education). Since 2014 International collaborator at HERMES, University of Newcastle, Australia.

Ammert’s research mainly focuses on history teaching, history education and the uses of history – how individuals and groups encounter, interpret and use history at school, in higher education, in politics and in other cultural and societal contexts. From 2018: History and moral encounters: exploring theoretical and empirical intersections of historical and moral consciousness from a History didaktik perspective. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council. Niklas Ammert is PI.

Latest publications: "Patterns of reasoning: A tentative model to analyse historical and moral consciousness among 9th grade students", in Historical Encounters Journal, Vol 4 no 1 2017 (article), History as Knowledge: Ethical Values and Meaning in Encounters with History, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Publishing 2015 (book), "Working with the Cold War: Types of Knowledge in Swedish and Australian History Textbook Activities", in Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, Vol 8 no 2 2016 (article).

My research groups and projects

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Ammert, N., Edling, S., Löfström, J., Sharp, H. (2017). Bridging historical consciousness and moral consciousness : Promises and challenges. Historical Encounters : A journal of historical consciousness, historical cultures and history education. 4. 1-13.
Ammert, N. (2017). Patterns of reasoning : A tentative model to analyse historical and moral consciousness among 9th grade students. Historical Encounters : A journal of historical consciousness, historical cultures and history education. 4. 23-35.
Sharp, H., Ammert, N. (2017). Primary Sources in Swedish and Australian History Textbooks : A Comparative Analysis of Representations of Vietnam's Kim Phuc. International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research. 14. 55-70.
Ammert, N., Sharp, H. (2016). Working with the Cold War : Types of Knowledge in Swedish and Australian History textbook Activities. Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society. 8. 58-82.
Ammert, N. (2015). On Genocide and the Holocaust in Swedish History Teaching. Historical Encounters : A journal of historical consciousness, historical cultures and history education. 2. 58-69.
Ammert, N. (2014). Contact and contrast : the subject of history and its relation to students 1905-2005. International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research. 12. 46-63.
Ammert, N. (2014). What do you know when you know something about history?. Historical Encounters : A journal of historical consciousness, historical cultures and history education. 1. 50-61.
Ammert, N. (2013). Ethical Values and History : a mutual relationship?. International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research. 12. 5-15.
Ammert, N. (2010). To Bridge Time : Historical Consciousness in Swedish History Textbooks. Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society. 2. 17-30.
Ammert, N. (2009). Gemenskap och ambivalens : Finsk-svenska möten i finlandssvenska läroböcker i historia. Historisk Tidskrift för Finland. 94. 1-19.
Ammert, N. (2005). Folkvilja, etikett eller jordbruksteknik? : En historiedidaktisk analys av synen på demokrati i historieläroböcker 1960-2003. Utbildning och Demokrati. 14. 31-50.

Conference paper (Refereed)

Ammert, N. (2019). Analysing students' expressions of temporal orientation and moral reflections. HEIRNET 2019 (History Educators International Research Network) : 2nd to 4th September, The University of Vienna, Austria. 16th annual international conference. Public History, Historical Culture, Identity and Pedagogy.
Ammert, N., Löfström, J., Sharp, H., Edling, S. (2019). Social perspective taking and moral reflection [judgment] in lower secondary school students’ responses to historical moral dilemmas : observations from a Swedish-Finnish survey study. NOFA7 Abstracts : Stockholm University, 13 - 15 May 2019. 20-20.
Ammert, N. (2019). Subject-specific language and pupils’ use of concepts in history as curriculum subject : Ämnesspråk och begreppsanvändning i historieämnet. NOFA7 Abstracts : Stockholm University, 13 - 15 May 2019. 19-19.
Ammert, N. (2017). Förväntningar och förekomst : Elevers förväntningar och läromedlens urval och presentation av kalla kriget-epoken. Historie – didaktik, dannelse og bevidsthed : Rapporter til det 29. Nordiske Historikermøde, Aalborg, 15.-18. august 2017, Bind 1. 40-70.

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Ammert, N. (2018). In Search of a Living Past. The Time Travel Method : in the Service of Society and its Development. Kalmar, Kalmar läns museum. 78-83.
Ammert, N., Gustafsson, B.E. (2017). To Make and to Experience Meaning : How Time Travels are Perceived among Participants. The Archaeology of Time Travel : Experiencing the Past in the 21st Century. Oxford, Archaeopress. 113-128.
Ammert, N. (2016). Mening i möten med historia. Möten med mening : Ämnesdidiaktiska fallstudier i konst och humaniora. Lund, Nordic Academic Press. 19-33.
Ammert, N. (2015). En ögonblicksbild av ondskan : Förintelsen och andra folkmord i svensk historieundervisning. Historia vid skiljevägen : Historiekulturella sonderingar när och fjärran. Höör, Agerings Bokförlag. 247-268.
Ammert, N. (2015). "Det känns mera meningsfullt om det handlar om det" : Värdefrågor, elever och undervisningens innehåll. Religionsdidaktiska studier. Kalmar och Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 5-18.
Ammert, N., Rosén, U., Svensson, J. (2014). Inledning. Blickar : kulturvetenskapliga perspektiv på utbildning. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 5-11.
Ammert, N. (2014). Den svårfångade kunskapen : elevers beskrivningar och tillämpningar av kunskap om historia. Blickar : kulturvetenskapliga perspektiv på utbildning. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 61-76.
Ammert, N. (2013). En banbrytande historiedidaktiker. I farmors kök blev jag människa : historiedidaktiska texter av K G Jan Gustafson. Lund, Sekel Bokförlag. 19-28.
Ammert, N. (2012). 'Ja utan ondska skulle det knappt finnas någon historia' : Värden som bärare av historisk kunskap. Historiedidaktik i Norden 9 : Del I: Historiemedvetande - historiebruk. Malmö och Halmstad, Malmö högskola. 54-74.
Ammert, N. (2011). Inledning (Att spegla världen). Att spegla världen : Läromedelsstudier i teori och praktik. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 17-22.
Ammert, N. (2011). Om läroböcker och studiet av dem. Att spegla världen : Läromedelsstudier i teori och praktik. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 25-42.
Ammert, N. (2011). Ett innehåll förmedlas. Att spegla världen : Läromedelsstudier i teori och praktik. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 259-278.
Ammert, N. (2004). Finns då (och) nu (och) sedan? Uttryck för historiemedvetande i läroböcker för grundskolan. Historien är nu : En introduktion till historiedidaktiken. Lund, Studentlitteratur.