 Appreciating international scholarships’ potential impact in Palestine’s extreme contextAnas N. Almassri International Journal of Educational Development, 2024, vol. 110, issue C Abstract: The article presents original findings of career gains perceived by 32 Palestinian alumnae and alumni of 12 master’s scholarship programs. I draw on these original findings in responding to one key research question: How do scholarships work, or not, as a pathway of development in Palestine? I argue that scholarships evidently work well as such because of key mechanisms underlying their perceived career impact: Expanded access to career resources, experiential (global) learning, key skills cultivation, specialized knowledge advancement, and enhanced employers’ appreciation. However, I outline limits of this argument by reflecting on the difficulty of recreating the efficacy of these mechanisms and scaling up their perceived impact in Palestine’s currently extreme context. I finally extend a call for increased, serious reflection on ways to defy this difficulty. Keywords: Capacity-building; Career development; Graduate study; International education; Scholarship programs; Palestine (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:injoed:v:110:y:2024:i:c:s0738059324001445 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103118 Access Statistics for this article International Journal of Educational Development is currently edited by Stephen P Heyneman More articles in International Journal of Educational Development from Elsevier |
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