Dr. Jennifer Adams is a Fulbright Specialist at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology from November 19 – December 4, 2022. She is collaborating with a team of scholars at the Ministry and faculty at several universities who developed the educational concept, Inti Dasar Capaian Pendidikan (IDCP) or Fundamental Core of Educational Outcomes. The project aims to further develop and share strategies to promote the infusion and measurement of values-based mindset character education in higher education. In Indonesia, character education is designed to prepare and direct the mindset change in building noble character of the graduates, emphasizing a strong belief in God, good conduct, identity, moral integrity, self-discipline, compassion, love for all living beings, and responsibility.
During her two-week award, Dr. Adams will provide a keynote address for more than 1,000 leaders and administrators of higher education institutions, faculty members, and researchers at the International Seminar Values-Based Mindset in Higher Education in Jakarta. The seminar creates a forum to synthesize and share lessons learned while finding better ways of comprehensive improvement of IDCP implementation. Following the international seminar, Dr. Adams will also lead seminars and workshops sharing measurement and assessment strategies for values-based educational outcomes with faculty at universities throughout the country, including in Padang, Bali, Singajaya, Yogyakarta, and Bandung.
Dr. Adams is an associate professor and program director for Global and International Education at Drexel University School of Education in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has over 20 years of experience working in the field of global education as a teacher, school leader, and educational researcher in East Asia (Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong). Dr. Adams earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, where she was a Spencer Foundation Research and Training Fellow. She is designated as a Fulbright Specialist by the U.S. Department of State (2021-2025) and an Israel Faculty Fellow (2022). She was appointed to serve on the Hong Kong Research Grants Council for education and the social sciences (2014-2019). Her scholarly work advances our understanding of key dimensions of educational inequality, particularly in resource-constrained rural areas, in a way that can inform educational policy and has the potential to improve disadvantaged students’ life chances. Her most recent research explores the potential of global citizenship identification to motivate students toward more environmentally beneficial patterns of behavior by inspiring positive feelings associated with being a part of and contributing to a global community.
