Dr. Jan Scharf
Academic Staff
Educational Trajectories
Rostocker Straße 6
60323
Frankfurt am Main
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.
last modified
Apr 11, 2021