Biography: Niklas Ammert

[Niklas Ammert]

I´m a lecturer at the University College of Kalmar in southern Sweden, where I teach Civics/Political Science and run teacher training courses in Civics and in History. I´m a PhD-student in History at Lund University. My thesis focuses on history textbooks at lower secondary school level. One purpose with the thesis is to study how history textbooks represent and interpret social values like "democracy" and "freedom". A historical context may open a way to understand and interpret values. On the other hand, these values can be useful for pupils in learning and understanding the historical process and in stimulating their awareness of history.