Research output per year
Research output per year
Research activity per year
My research-interests primarily concerns learning about food and gender equality in the Swedish compulsory school subject Home and Consumer Studies (which can be described as the Swedish version of home economics).
Previously I have studied how students and teachers make food in education meaningful. With qualitative methods, such as ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, focus groups and document analysis, the study showed how students and teachers had a limited shared understanding of what food in education means.
Learning about food takes place somewhere. Therefore, I have been curious about how place interact with learning and meaning-making by studying food lessons in traditional classrooms and outdoors in a forest.
Another issue closely related to food and everyday life is gender equality and the need to research new and innovative ways to educate about this is great. In a project we have explored how fiction can be used to approach this area, both with university and compulsory school students.
Based on my expertise and research-interests I have had various assignments from the Swedish National Agency for Education and the Swedish Schools Inspectorate. I have also co-edited the first didactic anthology for student teachers of home and consumer studies.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
PhD, Food Science and Nutrition, Uppsala University
Award Date: 2013-Sept-20
Degree of Bachelor, Master of Education, compulsory school, later years, Uppsala University
Award Date: 2013-Jun-28
Degree of Bachelor, Etnologi, Uppsala University
Award Date: 2000-Jun-28
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Oral presentation › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
Wendin, K. (Organiser), Lundin, Å. (Chair), Nyberg, M. (Organiser), Sepp, H. (Organiser), Olsson, V. (Organiser), Bryngelsson, S. (Organiser), Forsberg, S. (Organiser), Ehn Börjesson, S.-M. (Organiser), Höijer, K. (Organiser) & Calvén, A. (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Höijer, K. (Speaker) & Edvardsson, J. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Höijer, K. (Speaker) & Edvardsson, J. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Höijer, K. (Examiner)
Activity: Examination and supervision › External reviewer of Phd thesis