Stockholm university

Olle Nolgård

About me

I am a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Social Studies and History Education at the Department of Teaching and Learning and obtained my doctoral degree in Curriculum Studies (didaktik) from Uppsala University.

My research interests include the teaching and learning of history, difficult histories, historical justice, human rights and Global Citizenship Education.

Research

Journal articles (peer-review)

Nolgård, O (2022) De svenska romernas historia i SO-klassrummet: En designstudie på högstadiet. Nordidactica: Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education. (2022:4).

Nolgård, O. (2021) Realising Roma rights through a high-stakes history test: Secondary school students narrating the Swedish Roma past, present and future. History Education Research Journal. Vol. 18(2):199-223. DOI: 10.14324/HERJ.18.2.05

Björk, O., Nolgård, O., & Nygren, T. (2020). Barn skriver historia: En studie av fjärdeklassares skrivande i historieämnet. Nordidactica: Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education, (2020:2), 73–106.

Nolgård, O., Nygren, T., Tibbitts, F., Anamika, A., Bentrovato, D. Enright, P., Wassermann, J. & Welply, O. (2020). A global history in a global world? Human rights in history education in the Global North and South, Historical Encounters Journal: A journal of historical consciousness, historical cultures and history education, 7(1), 24 – 49. DOI: 10.52289/hej7.100

Nolgård, O. & Nygren, T. (2019) Considering the past and present of Romani in Sweden: secondary school pupils’ thinking and caring about the history of the Romani in national tests, Education Inquiry, DOI: 10.1080/20004508.2019.1607708

Doctoral dissertation

Nolgård, O. (2023). Historisk rättvisa i högstadiets historieundervisning: Elevperspektiv på de svenska romernas historia och mänskliga rättigheter. Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala: Uppsala universitet

Conference presentations

Nolgård, O. (2022). De svenska romernas historia i klassrummet: en designstudie. Presented at "Nationell historiedidaktisk konferens 2022", Högskolan Dalarna, Falun, 11-12 maj, 2022.

Björk, O. & Nolgård, O. (2021). Emergent Historical Literacy: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Analysing Discplinary Literacy in Primary School History Education. Presented at "Nationell historiedidaktisk konferens 2021", Uppsala University, Uppsala, 11-12 may 2021.

Nolgård, O. (2018). Considering the past and present of Romani in Sweden: Secondary school pupils' thinking and caring about the history of the Romani in national tests. Presented at "Controversial societal issues in education and democracy", Umeå Research Centre for Social Studies Didactics: Umeå University, Umeå, 24-25 october 2018.

Nolgård, O. (2018). Meeting the Romani with an Attitude?: National tests making Secondary school students’ think and care about the history of the Romani.  In "4ème Conférence de l’Association Internationale de Recherche en Didactique de l’Historie et des Sciences Sociale (AIRDHSS): Citoyenneté, identité et altérité" . Université de Paris Diderot | Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC), Paris France, 6 au 8 juin, 2018.

Nolgård, O. (2018). Meeting the Romani with an Attitude?: National tests making Secondary school students' think and care about the history of the Romani. Presented at 'Nationell historiedidaktisk konferens', Malmö University, Malmö, May 2018.

Other/in media

Nygren, T och Nolgård, O. 2019. "Skolverket osynliggör minoriteter i historieundervisningen". Skolvärlden (2019:8). Tillgänglig per länk: https://skolvarlden.se/artiklar/skolverket-osynliggor-minoriteter-i-historieundervisningen

Nolgård, O. (tillsammans med 22 andra forskare). 2019. Remissvar på Skolverkets prop. Revidering av kurs-och ämnesplaner: "Urfolk och minoriteter hör hemma i historieundervisningen".

Oral presentations

"Empiriska elevperspektiv på de svenska romernas historia: möjligheter, utmaningar och didaktiska implikationer", Forum för levande historia, Stockholm, 31 maj 2023

"Global Citizens? Student Views on their Learning About Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development: reports from a comparative study", The Global Citizenship Forum: Community Engagement in Higher Education, University of Otago, Dunedin, Nya Zeeland 30 juli 2018

Publications

My dissertation, peer-reviewed journal articles and other academic papers are available open-access through the link below:

My publications from Uppsala University

A selection from Stockholm University publication database

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