Appreciating international scholarships’ potential impact in Palestine’s extreme context
Almassri, Anas
Authors
Anas Almassri anas.n.almassri@durham.ac.uk
Combined Role
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.
Citation
Almassri, A. (2024). Appreciating international scholarships’ potential impact in Palestine’s extreme context. International Journal of Educational Development, 10, Article 103118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103118
