High-Impact Educational Practices in Developing Countries: A Case Study of (I)NGO Providers in Palestine

本研究旨在调查非政府组织(NGO)向本科生提供的高影响力教育实践(HIEP)对可持续发展的贡献。HIEP包括写作密集型课程、本科生研究、小组项目、基于社区和服务的学习、出国留学和实习(KUH 2008)。此类HIEP的目的是促进学生在学术、专业和公民环境中取得成功，美国收集的广泛证据表明HIEP做到了这一点(Brownell和Swaner，2009；Kilgoet al，2015)。巴勒斯坦是这项研究的地点，因为非政府组织及其在那里的重债穷国项目长期激增(见CALIS 2013)。在巴勒斯坦，非政府组织提供的高级别教育方案对实现可持续发展日益重要，特别是关于教育的第四个可持续发展目标及其在建设可持续发展能力方面的使命。然而，与其他发展中国家一样，巴勒斯坦的HIEP缺乏任何学术研究，特别是在非正规教育环境中进行的研究。为了解决这一知识鸿沟，这项研究将使用解释主义方法和定性方法来回答三个主要问题：非政府组织如何以及为什么提供重债穷国？这些HIEP给参与者带来了什么好处？哪些因素最大限度地发挥了非政府组织提供的重债穷国的影响？总体而言，这项研究将(I)扩大目前对非正规教育促进发展的认识并改进教育政策；(Ii)加深对教育类非政府组织的作用以及高级别教育计划在发展中国家的影响的认识，最终目标是使非政府组织提供的高级别教育计划更有效地在巴勒斯坦内外培养能够为可持续发展作出贡献的公民。

The proposed research investigates the contribution to sustainable development ofhigh-impact educational practices (HIEPs) delivered by non-governmentalorganizations (NGOs) to undergraduate students. HIEPs include writing-intensivecourses, undergraduate research, group projects, community- and service-basedlearning, study abroad, and internships (Kuh 2008). The aim of such HIEPs is topromote students' success in academic, professional, and civic settings, with extantevidence gathered in the US showing HIEPs do so (Brownell and Swaner 2009; Kilgoet al 2015). Palestine is the site of the research, given the longstanding proliferation ofNGOs and their HIEPs projects there (see Calis 2013). In Palestine, NGO-deliveredHIEPs are increasingly significant for achieving sustainable development, especiallythe fourth Sustainable Development Goal on education and its mission in buildingcapacities for sustainable development. Yet, like in other developing countries, HIEPsin Palestine lack any scholarly investigation, especially when delivered in non-formaleducational settings. To tackle this knowledge gap, the research will use aninterpretivist approach and qualitative methods to answer three primary questions:How and why are NGOs delivering HIEPs? What benefits arise for participants fromthese HIEPs? What factors maximise the impact of NGO-delivered HIEPs? Overall,this research will (i) expand current knowledge of and improve education policy onnon-formal education for development; and (ii) deepen understanding of the role ofeducational NGOs and the impact of HIEPs in a developing country, with the ultimategoal of making NGO-delivered HIEPs more effective in building in and beyondPalestine a citizenry capable of contributing to sustainable development.