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

• 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.
• Simoes Loureiro, K., Hadjar, A., Scharf, J., & Grecu, A. (2019). Do students’ language backgrounds explain achievement differences in the Luxembourgish education system? Ethnicities, 19(6), 1202-1228.
• 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.
• Hadjar, A., Scharf, J., & Grecu, A. (2019). Schulische Kontexte, Schulentfremdung und Bildungsarmut. In G. Quenzel & K. Hurrelmann (Eds.), Handbuch Bildungsarmut (pp. 183-209). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
• Morinaj, J., Scharf, J., Grecu, A., Hadjar, A., Hascher, T., & Marcin, K. (2017). School Alienation: A Construct Validation Study. Frontline Learning Research, 5(2), 36-59.