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Adams,
Jennifer
Assistant Professor of Education |
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Dr. Adams studies children's schooling and social welfare in China. Her research focuses on the community and school contexts in which children learn and develop, particularly in China's rural areas. Dr. Adams is the co-director of the Rural Education Action Project. Through this project, she is involved in several experiment-based research studies with the goal of providing policymakers with clear, scientific results that can help shape successful policies to improve the effectiveness of K-12 rural education programs and the educational experiences of young Chinese rural students. Since 1998, she has worked on the Gansu Survey of Children and Families, a longitudinal research project that investigates family, school, and community factors that support children's education and healthy development in rural, northwest China. She is also working on other research, including an analysis of Chinese educational policy trends and an investigation of the schools in sending and receiving communities for the children of migrant workers. In addition to her experience as a researcher, Adams also has five years of experience teaching primary school in Greater China. |
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* Ed.D. Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2005 (Administration, Planning and Social Policy)
* M.Ed. Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1998 (International Education)
* B.A. Colgate University, 1992 (Asian Studies and Educational Studies)
* Chinese Language Certificate, Beijing University, 1991 |
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* Co-director, Rural Education Action Project, Stanford Univeristy, 2007-
* Research Assistant, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Gansu Survey of Children and Familes, Wave 1, 1999-2002.
* Research Assistant, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Poverty and Children's Health in China, 1998-1999.
* Research Assistant, Harvard Graduate School of Education, A Pilot Study of Children and Families, 1998-1999.
* Primary School Teacher, Chinese International School, Hong Kong, 1995-1997.
* Primary School Teacher, Weige Private School, Taipei, 1994-1995.
* Director of Native Speaking Teachers/EFL Teacher, Hess Language School, Taipei, 1992-1994. |
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* Since 2006.
* Assistant Professor of Education |
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| * Educational policy, poverty and child welfare, education and migration, community influence on schooling, school environment, Chinese education and society, survey research methods. |
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* Introduction of International and Comparative Education (ED 202)
* Introduction to Survey Research (ED 291X)
* Educational Issues in Contemporary China (ED 309X)
* Politics, Policymaking, and Schooling Around the World (ED 306B) |
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* Emily Hannum and Jennifer Adams. (2007) "Girls in Gansu" in Social Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case Studies from the Developing World. Editors: Maureen Lewis & Marlaine Lockheed, Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development
* Adams, Jennifer. (2007) "Community Matters in China" in Research in Sociology of Education 15: Social Organization of Childhood in Developing Countries. Editors: Emily Hannum & Bruce Fuller.
* Adams, Jennifer and Emily Hannum. (2005) "Children's Social Welfare in China, 1989-1997: Access to Health Insurance and Education" The China Quarterly, 181(March): 100-121.
* Emily Hannum and Jennifer Adams. (Forthcoming) "Rural Poverty and Education" in Creating Wealth and Poverty in Contemporary China. Editors: Deborah Davis & Wang Feng. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. |
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* Phone: 650.725.1249
* Email: jennifer.adams@stanford.edu
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