Case studies provide helpful teaching tools to capture the complexity of administrative problems from an action-oriented perspective. With increasingly complex policy problems at hand, more interdisciplinary, interactive, and discursive approaches to teaching are also in demand. However, the case method offers a broad variety of options for teaching programs, ranging from short case illustrations or vignettes to full-length case studies. Attached to various types of case materials are different didactic approaches that pursue different pedagogic logics and are likely to make different contributions to in-classroom teaching. The case method in teaching public administration, however, comes at a cost and requires extra capacity, higher time budgets as well as new qualifications and roles of teachers plus a good fit of student (self)-selection and teaching objectives. If meaningfully utilized, it enhances our capacity to prepare (future) executives for complex environments.

案例研究提供了有用的教学工具，可以从面向行动的角度捕捉行政问题的复杂性。随着手头的政策问题越来越复杂，也需要更多跨学科、互动和话语的教学方法。但是，案例方法为教学计划提供了多种选择，从简短的案例插图或小插图到完整的案例研究。不同类型的案例材料附有不同的教学方法，它们追求不同的教学逻辑，可能对课堂教学做出不同的贡献。然而，公共行政教学中的案例方法需要付出代价并需要额外的能力，更高的时间预算以及教师的新资格和角色，以及学生（自我）选择和教学目标的良好契合。如果被有意义地利用，它会增强我们为（未来的）管理人员为复杂环境做好准备的能力。