Abdullah Atmacasoy
I am a PhD candidate in Educational Sciences at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara. I have BA degree in English Language and Literature and MA degree in Comparative Literature. I have 10 years of teaching experience.
I am mainly interested in curriculum development and instructional strategies in low-resource contexts and emergency situations.
In my dissertation research, I am working on the language education for newly arrived migrant students in their transition to national education systems in monolingual settings.
I am awarded to research grants by DAAD (Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst) and the Turkish Scientific and Research Council (TUBITAK) to conduct the Hamburg phase of my research. I am currently based in DivER (Diversity in Education Research) as a visiting researcher in the Department of General, Intercultural, and International Comparative Education at Hamburg Universität. My work is supervised by Prof. Dr. Hanife Akar (METU) and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ingrid Gogolin (Hamburg Universität).
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Research
My Works
“This is not a school break or holiday”: Syrian refugee students in Turkey during Covid-19
Earlier ResearchDeterminants of Destination Language Proficiency for Newly Arrived Migrant Students
Current ResearchA Summative Evaluation of an Introductory Engineering Course
Earlier ResearchA Systematic Review on Blended Learning in Pre-service Teacher Education
Earlier ResearchReading Notes
Reading fiction has always distracted my mind, but in a good way, to make me more focused on the work.
While I am juggling with a couple of tasks to finish writing my dissertation, I should either take up meditation or visit my old friend, literature. I took the path I know!
2022
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney. Youth, racing heart(s), and hesitant intimacies. With this debut novel and her plain style, she has implied her gigantic footsteps. Very nice to meet you, Rooney!
Ülker Abla (Turkish) by Seray Şahiner. I am an avid reader of Seray Şahiner, a very promising Turkish story writer / novelist. The plots in her books mainly revolve around oppressed, abused female characters in poverty. This book recounts the story of Ülker - who is indeed a spin-off character from Şahiner's most famous book, Antabus (Turkish). The idea sounds excellent, but Ülker Abla has come into being overall no different than a weekly magazine article. For me, it lacks depth and a refined style as if it were written in a hurry.
İmtiyaz - Yahut Cici Kızlara Bir Roman (Turkish) by Sezen Ünlüönen. I dived into this book when it was highly suggested by some people whose gut and vision I trust. The plot, which is centered around a main female character, hints itself a story of love and disappointments but ends with a feminist move, which unfortunately sounds too cliché.
Osman (Turkish) by Ayfer Tunç. I think Ayfer Tunç has presented an incredible character - Osman - to Turkish literature. I swallowed the 500-pages book in a relatively short time. You travel across various state of minds and witness how an affluent man, his close circle and a generation ruin their lives. Ayfer Tunç also shows how truth unfolds itself in different ways! It is a magnificent story. I am sure it will be in many languages soon and probably on screen sometime in the future.
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No further talks are scheduled for Fall 2022.
I will be back with my Ph.D. thesis done soon!