Breakthrough and Innovative Case Studies in Formal Education in Palestine: Summary, Challenges, and Future Insights

Casos de estudio innovadores en la educación formal en Palestina: resumen, retos y perspectivas de futuro

Palestinian universities and schools are focused on advancing teaching, learning, and research on a global level whilst meeting the local community’s needs by participating in sustainable economic, technical, and human development. Universities and schools aim for international education practices and to cultivate a multicultural, pluralistic outlook amongst staff and students designed to foster cross-cultural dialogue and academic exchange, which includes localising education practices into a (new) shape that suits the current situation in Palestine. This collection of papers brings together education research and practice focused on approaches to ensure the continuous improvement and quality of higher education provision across the country, with a particular focus on academic capability building, academic development, and knowledge exchange with international higher education partners. Innovative ideas, best practices, and comparative case studies are presented, discussed, and compared with international ones to extract lessons on how sustainable development goals were nearly achieved.

This special issue targets research projects investigating education in Palestine. They were provided by a number of institutions: Ministry of Education in Palestine, An-Najah National University, Birzeit University, The Islamic University of Gaza, Al-Quds Open University, University of Porto (Portugal) and Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR, Spain). These papers running projects, case studies, innovative pedagogies, teacher training programs, and open education innovative ideas.

Full open access at: Burgos, D., & Affouneh, S. (2021). Breakthrough and Innovative Case Studies in Formal Education in Palestine: Summary, Challenges, and Future Insights. In Education in the Knowledge Society 22, e27332. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14201/eks.27332