Dr. Jennifer Adair

Biography

Dr. Jennifer K. Adair is the Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor of Early Childhood Education and the director of the Agency Young Children Research Collective at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in working with parents, teachers, and children to enhance learning experiences with a particular focus on inequity and the barriers to agency. Dr. Adair employs video-cued ethnography and conducts large-scale qualitative studies across both national and global contexts. She is a Young Scholars Fellow at the Foundation for Child Development and has received significant grants from the Spencer Foundation and Brady Foundation to study civic action, racial justice, and culturally adaptive educational practices. Dr. Adair is a recognized author, having co-authored the award-winning book, "Segregation Experience: Agency, Racism Early Learning," published by The University of Chicago Press. Her work has been published in notable journals, and she teaches courses addressing qualitative research methods related to early childhood education. Dr. Adair also contributes to various editorial boards and advisory organizations in the field of education, amplifying public discourse through engagements in media and conferences such as SXSW.

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