Jennifer Keys Adair
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Jennifer Keys Adair

Author Dr. Jennifer Keys Adair, a preschool teacher-turned-cultural anthropologist and professor of early childhood education, draws upon 20 years of stories and scientific evidence to show why agency is so important for children’s learning. Dr. Adair’s award-winning writing and research has been covered by ABC, CBS, NBC, Washington Post, NPR, and The Conversation. She has received major funding from the Spencer Foundation, Foundation for Child Development and the Brady Foundation. She has published more than 50 articles in many of the top education journals including Teachers College Record, Harvard Educational Review, and Early Childhood Research Quarterly. In 2018, she founded the Agency and Young Children Research Collective to study how children use their agency to learn in different parts of the world. She authored Segregation by Experience: Agency, Racism and Early Learning (University of Chicago Press) along with co-author Dr. Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove which won the 2021 Council on Anthropology and Education Outstanding Book Award and the 2021-2022 Book Study Award from the High Scope Educational Research Foundation. Her new book Smart and Capable: Supporting Children’s Agency in a Complex World (Beacon Press) arrives in bookstores December 2026.
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