Dr. Abdullah Atmacasoy
abdullah.atmacasoy@hu-berlin.de
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DFG Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Education and Integration
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PI DFG project NAMS
abdullah.atmacasoy@hu-berlin.de
Profile
Abdullah Atmacasoy’s research focuses on the following topics:
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inclusion of newly arrived migrant children in schools
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curriculum and instruction in preparatory classes
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classroom (ethnic) composition
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effective instructional strategies in low-resource contexts
Academic Career
- 08/2026 – today: DFG Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Researcher in the project NAMS at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Research on Integration and Migration (BIM), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 10/2020 – 12/2023: Affiliated PhD Student & Visiting Researcher, Diversity in Education Research (DivER) Research Group, University of Hamburg
- 09/2016 – 08/2023: Doctoral Degree in Curriculum and Instruction, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara
Awards, Scholarships, and Third-Party Funding
- 2026-2028: Grant from the Walter Benjamin Programme, German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 2024: Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Middle East Technical University (METU)
- 2021-2022: International Research Fellowship, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBITAK)
- 2020-2021: International Research Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Selected Publications
- Atmacasoy, A., Akar, H. & Gogolin, I. (2025). Challenging homogeneity: Migration-related learner characteristics in refugee-only and mixed-migrant destination language classes in Türkiye and Germany. International Journal of Educational Research, 134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2025.102780
- Atmacasoy, A. (2025). What characterizes the language instruction in homogeneous and heterogeneous preparatory classes for refugee and migrant children in monolingual school contexts? A comparative case study from Türkiye and Germany. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 28(3), 609-637. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-025-01335-x
- Atmacasoy, A., Akar, H. & Gogolin, I. (2023). "Building responsive education systems toward multiple disruptions in refugee education: Turkey and Germany as cases", Wiseman, A.W. and Damaschke-Deitrick, L. (Ed.) Education for Refugees and Forced (Im)Migrants Across Time and Context (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 45), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 155-176. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-367920230000045009
A full list of publications is available here.
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