Dr. Jan Scharf

Projects

• Educational choices and educational pathways within the context of structural changes in Berlin’s secondary school system (BERLIN study)
• Individual Developmental Trajectories and Institutional Contexts Across the Lifespan
• MILES-HuGS – Primary and Secondary Social Background Effects at Different Points of Transition in the Education System

Curriculum Vitae

Since 10/2019

Fellow at the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER)

Since 03/2019

Research Associate in the research group “Individual Developmental Trajectories and Institutional Contexts Across the Lifespan”, Department of Educational Governance at DIPF

2018

Doctorate in Sociology, University of Luxembourg

2015 – 2018

Research Associate, PhD candidate, University of Luxembourg (Institute of Education and Society, Project SASAL)

2013 – 2015

Research Associate, University of Luxembourg (Youth Research)

2010 – 2013

Research Associate, Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen (LSKN)

2010

Diploma in Social Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover

Research Interests

• Sociology of education and educational inequality
• Primary and secondary effects
• School contexts, values of education and school alienation

Publications

Publications (DIPF database of publications)

• Scharf, J. (2021). Bildungswerte und Schulentfremdung. Schulische Kontexteffekte in Luxemburg und im Schweizer Kanton Bern. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.
• Hadjar, A., Scharf, J., & Hascher, T. (2021). Who aspires to higher education? Axes of inequality, values of education and higher education aspirations in secondary schools in Luxembourg and the Swiss Canton of Bern. European Journal of Education, 56(1), 9-26.
• Scharf, J., Becker, M., Stallasch, S. E., Neumann, M., & Maaz, K. (2020). Primäre und sekundäre Herkunftseffekte über den Verlauf der Sekundarstufe: Eine Dekomposition an drei Bildungsübergängen. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 23(6), 1251-1282.
• Scharf, J., Hadjar, A., & Grecu, A. (2019). Applying social production function theory to benefits of schooling: The concept of values of education. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40(7), 847-867.
• Hadjar, A. & Scharf, J. (2019). The value of education among immigrants and non-immigrants and how this translates into educational aspirations: a comparison of four European countries. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(5), 711-734.