Niklas Ammert

Professor, pro vice-chancellor

Department of Cultural Sciences Faculty of Arts and Humanities

niklas.ammert@lnu.se

+46 480-44 64 76

+46 76-644 64 76

Niklas Ammert is pro 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.

Latest publications:

Ammert, N., Hovland, B.M. (2025). Democratic citizens, shaped by the past and shaping the past : Historical consciousness and democratic consciousness in the Norwegian curriculum for social studies 2020. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education.
Status: Epub för tryck

Edling, S., Sharp, H., Ammert, N., Alvén, F., Löfström, J. (2025). Editorial and an introduction: intersections of historical and democratic consciousness in history curriculum and/or syllabus : A study across nine countries. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education.
Status: Epub för tryck

Ammert, N., Kakoulidou, K., Rosenlund, D. (2025). Historiedidaktik och historieundervisning : Förutsättningar, utmaningar, möjligheter. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB.

Löfström, Jan, Niklas Ammert, Silvia Edling & Heather Sharp, ”Avanços na educação ética na aula de história: o prosseguimento das interseções da consciência moral e histórica”, in Currículo sem Fronteiras, v. 22, e1103, 2023.

Ammert, Niklas & Jan Löfström, ”Moral Consciousness”, i Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method, London: Bloomsbury 2023.

Teaching

Niklas Ammert mainly teaches on History Didactics courses inte the Upper Secondary teacher Programme and in the programme Cultural Heritage in the Present and Future.

Research

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 2023 he coordinates (PI) the research network Democracy in the past, the present, and looking to the future: An international network focusing on historical, moral, and democratic consciousness in history education, research and policy, funded by the Swedish Research Council.

He is active in a number of reserach collaborations in national as well as international projects, for example Exploring History Education through Heritage (with colleagues from Köln, Amsterdam and Murcia), Progression in Conceptual Understanding of Time in History Education (Hamburg Universität) and a Nordic collaboration about Social Sciences and citizenship. He is a member of the Swedish network of History Didactics Research and International Society of History Didactics

Commissions

Since 2020, Niklas Ammert has served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Linnaeus University with special responsibility for education and learning. Prior to this, he was Vice-Chancellor (2018–2020), Dean of the Board for Teacher Education (2017–2018), Pro Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (2013–2016), Head of School of Cultural Sciences (2010–2012), and Head of Department of Learning and Communication (2007–2009, at Kalmar University). Ammert has held a number of committee and board assignments and has also been a member of the Advisory Board for the National Scientific Centre for History and Cultural Heritage Education (Historielab) in Denmark.

My research groups

Centre for Applied Heritage Applied heritage is about the potential of heritage to transform society. The Centre for Applied Heritage at Linnaeus University aims at advancing academic research and…

My ongoing research projects

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Ammert, N., Hovland, B.M. (2025). Democratic citizens, shaped by the past and shaping the past : Historical consciousness and democratic consciousness in the Norwegian curriculum for social studies 2020. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education. 24 (1). 85-101.
Status: Published
Löfström, J., Ammert, N., Edling, S., Sharp, H. (2023). Avanços na educação ética na aula de história : o prosseguimento das interseções da consciência moral e histórica. Currículo sem Fronteiras. 22.
Status: Published
Ammert, N., Löfström, J. (2023). Moral Consciousness. Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method.
Status: Published
Edling, S., Löfström, J., Sharp, H., Ammert, N. (2022). Mapping moral consciousness in research on historical consciousness and education : a summative content analysis of 512 research articles published between 1980 and 2020. Journal of Curriculum Studies. 54 (2). 282-300.
Status: Published
Löfström, J., Ammert, N., Edling, S., Heather, S. (2021). Advances in ethics education in the history classroom : after intersections of moral and historical consciousness. International Journal of Ethics Education. 6. 239-252.
Status: Published
Ammert, N., Sharp, H., Löfström, J., Edling, S. (2020). Identifying aspects of temporal orientation in students’ moral reflections. History Education Research Journal (HERJ). 17 (2). 132-150.
Status: Published
Löfström, J., Ammert, N., Sharp, H., Edling, S. (2020). Can and should history give ethical guidande? : Finnish and Swedish grade 9 students on moral judgement-making in history. Nordidactica : Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education. 4. 88-114.
Status: Published
Edling, S., Sharp, H., Löfström, J., Ammert, N. (2020). The good citizen : Revisiting moral motivations for introducing historical consciousness in history education drawing on the writings of Gadamer. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education. 19 (2). 133-150.
Status: Published
Edling, S., Sharp, H., Löfström, J., Ammert, N. (2020). Why is ethics important in history education? A dialogue between the various ways of understanding the relationship between ethics and historical consciousness. Ethics and Education. 15 (3). 336-354.
Status: Published
Sharp, H., Edling, S., Ammert, N., Löfström, J. (2020). A Review of Doctoral Theses Since 2000 : Historical Consciousness in the Australian Context. Yearbook (of the International Society for History Didactics). 41. 123-140.
Status: Published
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). 1-13.
Status: Published
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 (1). 23-35.
Status: Published
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 (2). 55-70.
Status: Published
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 (2). 58-82.
Status: Published
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 (1). 58-69.
Status: Published
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 (2). 46-63.
Status: Published
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 (1). 50-61.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2013). Ethical Values and History : a mutual relationship?. International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research. 12 (1). 5-15.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2010). To Bridge Time : Historical Consciousness in Swedish History Textbooks. Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society. 2 (1). 17-30.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2009). Gemenskap och ambivalens : Finsk-svenska möten i finlandssvenska läroböcker i historia. Historisk Tidskrift för Finland. 94 (1). 1-19.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2005). Folkvilja, etikett eller jordbruksteknik? : En historiedidaktisk analys av synen på demokrati i historieläroböcker 1960-2003. Utbildning och Demokrati. 14 (3). 31-50.
Status: Published

Article in journal (Other academic)

Edling, S., Sharp, H., Ammert, N., Alvén, F., Löfström, J. (2025). Editorial and an introduction: intersections of historical and democratic consciousness in history curriculum and/or syllabus : A study across nine countries. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education. 24 (1). 3-17.
Status: Published
Alvén, F., Ammert, N. (2023). Dansk historieundervisning i relation till svensk : Kommentarer till Eskelund Knudsen & Haue, ´Historieundervisning i Danmark: epokale tendenser, kontinuitet og forandring i lærebøger og læremidler´. Nordidactica : Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education. 1. 28-34.
Status: Published
Ammert, N., Sharp, H., Edling, S., Löfström, J. (2022). Perspectives on History and Moral Encounters. Historical Encounters : A journal of historical consciousness, historical cultures and history education. 9 (2). 1-6.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2016). Historieläromedel : en forskningsöversikt. Humanetten. (37). 140-153.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2015). Vinner man val med hjälp av historia? : Nedslag i den svenska debatten inför riksdagsvalet 2014. Humanetten. (34). 5-11.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2011). Kulturrevolutionen i Boda : ett provokativt historiebruk. HumaNetten. (27). 97-102.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2009). Att göra det förflutna närvarande. Manus, SLFF Medlemstidskrift. (1).
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2009). En katastrofkanon : 1900-talets katastrofer i historieläroböcker. Didaktisk Tidskrift. 18 (5). 377-392.
Status: Published

Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Ammert, N. (2025). Historia - ett ryskt vapenslag. Elva-posten : Kungl Kronobergs Regementes Kamratförenings Tidning. (2). 16--19.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2023). Planerna på svensk invasion av Bornholm 1945. Elva-Posten : Kungl Kronobergs Regementes Kamratförenings Tidning. (3-4). 19-21.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2022). Hur elever förstår och använder begreppen förändring och kontinuitet. Radar: Historiedidaktisk tidskrft. 1-12.
Status: Published
Ammert, N., Kakoulidou, K. (2019). Rapport från XIII:e konferensen med Nationella nätverket för historiedidaktisk forskning, 8-10 maj 2019, Linnéuniversitetet. Nordidactica : Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education. (2). 209-211.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2017). Att öva historia. Radar: Historiedidaktisk tidskrift.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2015). Meddelande till rymden. Rymden och människan: Rymdforskning i humaniora, konst och samhällsvetenskap. 10-11.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2015). Mot samma mål?. Manus: Sveriges läromedelsförfattares förbunds tidskrift. (2).
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2009). Att stimulera historiemedvetande. Grundskoletidningen. 3.
Status: Published

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Ammert, N., Edling, S., Löfström, J., Sharp, H. (2022). Möten mellan historia och moralisk reflektion : teoretiska och empiriska skärningspunkter mellan historiemedvetande och moraliskt medvetande ur ett historiedidaktiskt perspektiv. Resultatdialog 2022 : kortfattade resultat från forskning finansierad av Vetenskapsrådets utbildningsvetenskapliga kommitté. Stockhholm, Vetenskapsrådet. 16-21.
Kakoulidou, K., Ammert, N. (2021). Att bedöma det som bedömas ska : provuppgifter i relation till vad styrdokumenten föreskriver. Att bedöma i historieämnet : Perspektiv på historisk kunskap, bedömning och prov. Uddevalla, Historielärarnas förening. 67-85.
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.

Collection (editor) (Refereed)

Ammert, N., Sharp, H., Edling, S., Löfström, J. (2022). Perspectiives on History and Moral Encounters. Newcastle, HERMES Research Group, University of Newcastle. 66.
Ammert, N., Edling, S., Löfström, J., Sharp, H. (2017). Special Issue: Historical and Moral Consciousness. Newcastle, AUS, HERMES Reserach group.

Collection (editor) (Other academic)

Ammert, N., Rosén, U., Svensson, J. (2014). Blickar : kulturvetenskapliga perspektiv på utbildning. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 244.
Ammert, N., Hallgren, R. (2013). I farmors kök blev jag människa : historiedidaktiska texter av K G Jan Gustafson. Lund, Sekel Bokförlag. 167.
Ammert, N. (2011). Att spegla världen : Läromedelsstudier i teori och praktik. Lund, Studentlitteratur. 360.

Conference paper (Refereed)

Alvén, F., Ammert, N., Edling, S., Löfström, J., Sharp, H. (2025). A policy analysis of interactions between history education and democracy education in nine countries. Presented at: NoFa X: The 10th Nordic Conference on subject didactics, Odense, Denmark, 7-9 May, 2025.
Ammert, N., Edling, S., Löfström, J., Sharp, H. (2019). History and moral encounters : exploring theoretical and empirical intersections of historical and moral consciousness from a History didaktik perspective. 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. (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., 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. (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.

Conference paper (Other academic)

Ammert, N., Alvén, F., Edling, S., Sharp, H., Löfström, J. (2025). Historical and democratic consciousness in history curricula and/or syllabi : A study across nine countries. Presented at HEIRNET 2025 Conference, Cologne, Germany, 27-29 August.
Ammert, N., Sharp, H., Alvén, F., Boadu, G., Öztürk, F., et al. (2024). Historical Consciousness and Democracy in Curricula : An international comparative study.. HEIRNET 24, University of Stirling, 28-30 August, HEIRNET 2024 - History Education: Teacher of life, HEIRNET CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS.
Ammert, N., Alvén, F., Edling, S., Ting Mu Hung, H., Öztürk, F., et al. (2023). Outlining a comparative study of expressions of Democracy in history education in ten countries. Presented at HEIRNET 2023 History Education International Research Network, Stockholm.
Ammert, N., Löfström, J. (2023). History and moral encounters - an international research project, its results and implications for heritage educattion. .
Ammert, N. (2022). Skolelevers möten med värdeladdad historia: nationella och internationella perspektiv : Hur elever använder ett historiskt moraliskt dilemma för att reflektera kring historiska sammanhang och samhälleliga utmaningar. Book of abstracts for the 30th Congress of Nordic Historians : Nordiska historikermötet, Göteborg 8-11 augusti. 312-312.
Ammert, N., Edling, S. (2022). History and Moral Encounters : results and experiences of an international research project. .
Ammert, N. (2019). Identifying aspects of temporal orientation in students' moral reflections. 8e Svenska historikermötet 2019, Växjö 8-10 maj : Rättigheter.
Ammert, N., Torhell, C. (2018). Universitetsbiblioteket som arena för universitetsövergripande verksamhet - exemplet högskolepedagogik. Mötesplats Profession – Forskning : Linnéuniversitetet i Växjö 22–23 oktober 2018.
Ammert, N. (2017). Förväntningar och förekomst : Elevers förväntningar och läromedlens urval och presentation av kalla kriget-epoken. NHM-2017, 29 : Nordiska historikermøde.
Ammert, N., Eliasson, P. (2017). Prov på prov : En studie av validitetsaspekter i externa historieprov. Nationella nätverket för historiedidaktisk forskning, konferens Halmstad, 3-4 maj 2017. 1-31.
Ammert, N. (2016). Content, skills and deep reflection : on the Holocaust and other genocides in swedish history teaching. International Research Conference on Education about the Holocaust.
Ammert, N. (2016). History IRL : How participants perceive time travels. Bridging Ages Conference : Sept 13-16, 2016, Kalmar, Sweden.
Ammert, N. (2015). Patterns of reasoning : A tentative model to analyse historical and moral consciousness among Swedish 9th grade students. Book of Abstracts : NoFa5 Nordic Conference on Subject Education, 27-29 May 2015. 94-94.
Ammert, N. (2014). Interpreting historical encounters : how cultural sociology might enrich and complement history didactics. .
Ammert, N. (2012). Kontakt och kontrast : Historieämnets innehåll och dess relation till elever 1905-2005.
Ammert, N. (2011). Värden som bärare av historisk kunskap.
Ammert, N. (2009). To Bridge Time: Historical Consciousness in Swedish History Textbooks During the 20th Century. .

Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Barsch, S., Ammert, N., Logtenberg, A., Van Hess, G. (2024). Exploring History Education through Heritage.. .

Article, book review (Other academic)

Ammert, N. (2014). [recension av:] Sirkka Ahonen: Coming to terms with a dark past - how post-conflict societies deal with history. Historielärarnas Förenings Årsskrift 2014. 218-219.
Status: Published
Ammert, N. (2011). Mörkrets hjärta i klassrummet: : Historieundervisning och elevers uppfattningar om förintelsen: av Bo Persson. Scandia. Lund, Lunds universitet. 77 (2). 186-187.
Status: Published

Article, book review (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Ammert, N. (2005). Recension av Elisabeth Ivansson & Mattias Tordai, Historia 4. Historielärarnas Förening Årsskrift 2005. 188-189.
Status: Published

Report (Other academic)

Ammert, N. (2005). Do you want me to kill you now? : Ett historiedidaktiskt nedslag vid Eketorps fornborg. 19.

Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Ammert, N. (2013). Vad kan man när man kan något om historia?. Stockholm, Grundskoletidningen 2/2013.