Ass. Prof. Dr. Ersoy Erdemir
Position and Contact
Visiting Scientist
Contact: ersoy.erdemir@hu-berlin.de
Academic Career
09/2023 - present
Research Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research, Education and Integration Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
05/2014 – present
Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at Primary Education Department, Boğaziçi University/Istanbul
01/2020 – present
Education Consultant and Researcher at Mother Child Education Foundation (AÇEV), Departments of Early Childhood Education; Parent Education; Research, Monitoring and Evaluation; Advocacy and Policy Development
09/2010 – 06/2013
Lecturer at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Graduate School of Education, Department of Learning and Instruction, Programs of Early Childhood Education and Foreign/Second Language Education
02/2011 – 06/2013
Project Director at Early Childhood Research Laboratory, State University of New York at Buffalo, Graduate School of Education
01/2008 – 01/2011
Research Assistant at Early Childhood Education Program, State University of New York at Buffalo, Graduate School of Education
01/2008 – 06/2013
Doctoral Degree in Learning and Instruction, State University of New York at Buffalo
09/2006 – 12/2007
Master’s Degree in Learning and Instruction, State University of New York at Buffalo
Research Interests
- Early education interventions for socioeconomically disadvantaged children
- Parenting support interventions for socioeconomically disadvantaged families
- Social adversities in early childhood: Poverty, displacement, immigration, social exclusion
- Development trajectories of refugee, migrant, and minority children
- Vulnerability and resilience in early childhood and family ecologies
Selected Publications
- Karan, Ş., & Erdemir, E. (2023). Subjective school wellbeing of refugee and local children: Voices from having, loving, and being dimensions. Early Child Development and Care, 193(9-10), 1141-1158. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2023.2234671
- Erdemir, E. (2022). Home-based early education for refugee and local children via mothers: A model of contextually sensitive early intervention. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 31(4), 1121-1144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-021-02197-7
- Erdemir, E. (2022). Summer preschools for Syrian refugee and host community children in Turkey: A model of contextually sensitive early intervention. Early Education and Development, 33(5), 912-938. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2021.1961426
- Erdemir, E. (2022). Uncovering community cultural wealth through an early intervention program: Syrian refugee children speaking. Early Childhood Education Journal, 50(2), 259-278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-020-01140-7
- Erdemir, E., & Brutt-Griffler, J. (2022). Vocabulary development through peer interactions in early childhood: A case study of an emergent bilingual child in preschool. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 25(3), 834-865. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2020.1722058
- Erdemir, E. (2021). Transactional relations and reciprocity between refugee mothers and their children: Changes in child, parenting, and concept of child. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 29(4), 547-568. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2020.1858916