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. (2021). Bildungswerte und Schulentfremdung. Schulische Kontexteffekte in Luxemburg und im Schweizer Kanton Bern. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.
• Hadjar, A., Grecu, A., Scharf, J., De Moll, F., Morinaj, J., & Hascher, T. (2021). Changes in school alienation profiles among secondary school students and the role of teaching style: Results from a longitudinal study in Luxembourg and Switzerland. International Journal of Educational Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101697.
• 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.