Field of work
Primarily works on the relationship between history, culture, and society in Norway after 1945. His research addresses, among other topics, history education as a form of politics, literature as a site of memory culture, and cultural engagements with the Second World War and the Holocaust.
He received his PhD in 2022 with a dissertation on Holocaust education as a phenomenon in Norway.
He is generally interested in the relationship between text, understandings of reality, and historical consciousness. He has also published several works of fiction and is actively engaged as a literary mediator.
Research areas
- History didactics
- Holocaust education
- Bildung
- History education
- Theory of history
Research groups
- MDIP502C, Memory culture: Politics, critique and didactics, 25/26
- MDIP550C, Master's thesis, 25/26
- MGUSA102, Social studies 1, module 1 - Introduction to social studies 1, 25/26, subject responsible
- MGUSA201, Social studies 1, module 2 - Introduction to social studies 2, 25/26
- MGUSA202, Social studies 1, module 2 - Introduction to social studies 2, 25/26, subject responsible
- MGUSA302, Social studies 2, module 1 - Diversity, sustainability, and historical consciousness, 25/26
- MGUSA402, Social studies 2, module 2 - Critical thinking in a local, national, and global perspective., 25/26
- MGUSA501, Social studies 3, module 1 - Social studies research and literature, 25/26
- MGUSA502, Social studies 3, module 2 - Society, education and learning, 25/26
- MGUSA503, Social studies 3, module 3 - Research methods and source critisism, 25/26
- MGUSA550, Social studies 3, module 4 - Master's thesis, 25/26
- PHD906, Educational institutions as a space for Bildung, 25/26
- PHD950, Doctoral thesis, 25/26
Publications
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From the Margins to the Centre: The Emergence of Holocaust Education in Scandinavia (1990–2023)
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Fortiden i små hender: Innføring i historiedidaktikk for grunnskolen
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How we try to grasp genocide: emotions in Holocaust education
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From Auschwitz to the West Indies: The impact of Holocaust memory on Thorkild Hansen’s “slave trilogy”
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