Research areas

Research profile in Educational research, classrom studies, oracy and dialogue (sdu.dk.mod)
School subject specific pedagogy (Fachdidaktik) and Curriculum studies, literature pedagogy, aesthetic exprience and literacy practices (e.g. oral  interpretation) according to oracy and listening, intercultural pedagogy, language pedagogy, comparative disciplinary didactics and interdisciplinary teaching and learning strategies.

Classroom dialogue, listening, gesture studies, language in use, transcription practice, language rhythm and versification,  intercultural communication,  multimodality.

Project manager of project (Ministry of Education) to develop interdisciplinary teaching in secondary schools (2012-15 ): research in interdisciplinary didactics and teacher’s collaboration across school disciplines.

Coordination and evaluation of project to develop education for Danish as a School subject at university and teacher college institutions. A collaboration: Danish as a Subject for Teaching.

Teaching experience from universities, teacher training college, lower and upper secondary teaching.

Curriculum

School subject specific pedagogy /Curriculum studies, Teaching and learning strategies
Educational research and development.
(Keywords below)

School subject specific pedagogy in Standard language and literature teaching (Danish) and comparative school subject specific pedagogy (comparative disciplinary didactics) and Interdisciplinary teaching and learning.

Oracy and listening, Dialogic inquiry, Literature pedagogy, Studies of oral performance and communication as teaching practise. Research in classroom dialogue and oral response as professional teacher competence, learning strategy and class culture. Studies of narratology in written and spoken language, listening and gesture studies, studies of dialogue and language in use, development of transcription practice, studies of language rhythm in written and spoken language (in poetry, versification and in everyday speech and dialogue). Studies of multimodality.

Educational Research: Project manager of ministerial project (Ministry of Education) to develop interdisciplinary teaching in secondary schools (2012- 2015): research in interdisciplinary didactics and teacher’s collaboration across school disciplines. Coordinated and evaluated (2009-12) collaboration between university and teacher college institutions to develop Teacher’s College Education at the university: Development of Danish courses and didactics, teaching practice in primary schools, and supervision.

Teaching experience from universities, Teacher training college, lower and higher secondary schools

Current research projects:

QUINT, Centre of Excellence for research on teacching quality: Quality in Nordic Teaching: https://www.uv.uio.no/quint/english/ Funded by Nordforsk (Nordic Council of Ministers). Research Project in five Nordic Countries to develop teacher education and knowledge of the Nordic classroom in primary and secondary education. Høegh is the leader of the Danish part and participation with special focus on Connected Classroom Nordic : https://www.uv.uio.no/quint/english/projects/connected-classrooms-nordic/ 

MiCREATE, Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe http://www.micreate.eu/ (EU-projekt, Research Project funded by EU Horizon 2020. 15 research partners in 10 countries collaborating 2019-2021 to describe and develope the conditions for integration and migration for children and youth right now.

Reform 2017; Evaluation of the latest Reform of Upper Secondary Education 2017-2020.