Scaling Up and Crowding Out: How German Adult Education Centers Adapted Course Offers to Refugee Integration

Autor/inn/en	Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa
Titel	Scaling Up and Crowding Out: How German Adult Education Centers Adapted Course Offers to Refugee Integration
Quelle	In: Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 73 (2023) 1, S.60-80 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Thomsen, Stephan L.) ORCID (Weilage, Insa)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0741-7136
DOI	10.1177/07417136211068861
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Adult Education; Refugees; Social Integration; Acculturation; Media Adaptation; Curriculum Development; Adult Programs; German; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Scaling; Germany; Syria; Iraq; Afghanistan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Flüchtling; Soziale Integration; Akkulturation; Medienverwendung; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Deutscher; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Scale construction; Skalenkonstruktion; Deutschland; Syrien; Irak
Abstract	Language skills are central to refugee integration and the availability of language courses could thus be a limiting factor. We explore how the most important provider of language courses in Germany, adult education centers (VHS), adapted their course supply to the refugee wave of 2015/2016. Our results highlight two channels through which the local environment can affect opportunities for participation in adult learning: First, exploiting the quasi-random allocation of refugees to counties, we causally estimate by how much VHS scaled up their German language course (DAF) supply as a reaction. Moreover, we show that DAF courses were created almost exclusively at the cost of other courses, that is, by crowding out. Second, we uncover heterogeneities in scaling success. VHS with more prior DAF course experience and larger VHS adapted better, which shows the relevance of initial conditions in course offers. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01