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Unveiling the duality: Visiting the big questions of public administration education through qualitative insights from Türkiye Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Volkan Göçoğlu, İpek Didem Göçoğlu, Atahan Demirkol
Despite the vast literature on public administration education (PAE), there is still a need for a broader perspective and exploration of its general characteristics, focal points, and objectives to create an overarching framework. Stemming from this motivation, this study establishes an investigative point of view that considers both the structural and functional dimensions of existing literature,
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A review of women, power, and rape culture: The politics and policy of under-representation Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Amber Overholser
In “Women, power and rape culture: The politics of policy and underrepresentation”, authors Bonnie Stabile and Aubrey Leigh Grant provide a rich overview and detailed research surrounding the reality and politics of harassment, sexual assault, and rape within Legislative, Judicial, and Executive branches, and the avenue to those branches our college campuses during former President Trump’s term. The
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ChatGPT, a partnering tool to improve ESL learners’ speaking skills: Case study in a Public University, Malaysia Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Jayanthi Muniandy, Mahiswaran Selvanathan
The emergence of ChatGPT, an OpenAI chatbot, has revolutionised our education system to a new phase. It is an innovative approach to future learning, including in the English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom. Since its inception, ChatGPT has been remarkably used by most educators and learners. Nevertheless, its application in the flipped classroom, especially in enhancing ESL learners’ speaking
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Global and transnational governance: Implications for public administration teaching Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Gerrit van der Waldt
Public Administration (PA) as an academic discipline has traditionally been anchored in the principles of state-centric governance, national implementation policies, and the management of domestic public affairs. However, the rise of global and transnational governance has significantly reshaped the context in which public administrators operate. This reality has a direct bearing on the corpus of knowledge
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Northern theories and Southern policies. Why the most influential approaches are insufficient for teaching public policy in Latin America Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Nicolás Bentancur
The main theories of the thriving field of study of public policies have been formulated at institutions of developed countries, mostly by the American academy, based on the particular conditions o...
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Immediate and sustained effect of a service-learning course grounded in public problem analysis Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Wan-Ling Huang
This study aims to propound an instructional design for a service-learning course grounded in public problem analysis and verify its immediate and sustained outcomes through the actual instructiona...
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Revisiting the debate on institutions, the state and institutional change: The relevance of institutional theory to public administration teaching Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Luiz César Silva, Isabel Maria Macedo, Maria Thompson
Global disruptions are marking our days and calling on individuals, institutions, and the State for institutional change. Given the need to understand changing processes and their implications for ...
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Citizens’ perceptions on public finance literacy: Familiarity, importance, actual use and proposed learning objectives Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Sotirios Karatzimas
Recent literature highlights the importance of providing citizens public sector accounting education to help them become public finance literate. This study performs a questionnaire-based survey to...
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“How may i help?”: Using New Amsterdam as a case study to link theory to practice Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Beth M. Rauhaus
Teaching public administration theory and linking it to practice can be challenging; yet are central goals to MPA programs. Using relevant examples that students can relate to is instrumental in ac...
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The dark horse of public administration: The challenge of pedagogical research Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Bruce D McDonald, III
Research on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) has tended to have a bad reputation within the field of public administration. In this manuscript, I discuss the issue of impactful resea...
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A note from the editors of teaching public administration Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2023-02-21 The Editors of TPA
The start of a new year, or in TPA’s case a new volume (41) is always a moment to pause and reflect.
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The recipient of the teaching public administration and journal of public affairs education 2022 award for outstanding contribution to public administration pedagogical scholarship and research is Christoph Reichard Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-12-21 John Diamond
The Annual Award is made by the editors of TPA and JPAE (Journal of Public Affairs Education). This citation describes the significant contribution made by the 2022 winner - Christoph Reichard
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Transforming the master of public administration education for a changing world of work: A personal account of a South African case Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Jacobus S Wessels
Public administration managers are confronted with new and highly complex challenges emerging at a rapid rate. This situation requires a reimagining of public administration education to prepare pu...
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Entrepreneurship in public administration and public policy programs in Germany and the United States Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Heike M Grimm, Charlotte L Bock
The following contribution hypothesizes that it is crucial for future professionals in public administrations and organizations to be familiar with the concepts, tools, and techniques of policy, pu...
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Teaching nonprofit management: One course assignment addressing multiple learning outcomes Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Shamima Ahmed
Research has documented that applied projects that are experiential and grounded in the course contents offer effective hands-on experience to students to understand the course materials and apply ...
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When public administration education switches online: Student perceptions during COVID-19 Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Stuti Rawat, Yifei Yan, Alfred M Wu, Lina Vyas
Public administration education is traditionally known for its emphasis on interaction, discussion and experiential learning, which require effective in-person instructions. With COVID-19 pushing m...
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The problem-based learning as a pedagogical framework for teaching master of public policy and master of public administration programs in Latin America Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Norma Munoz-del-Campo
If the aim of developing public policies is to solve social issues, it is worth asking whether the higher education programs for future public servants are being adapted to the demands of our socie...
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Decision-making skills in the fourth industrial revolution Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Michiel S de Vries, Hendri Kroukamp
Courses and training in public decision-making have often disappeared from Public Administration curricula. This paper argues that this is unfortunate as skills therein are severely needed to steer...
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Student satisfaction on lecturers’ effectiveness, efficiency and productivity: Malaysian education landscape during the COVID-19 pandemic Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Mahiswaran Selvanathan, Prakash Velloo, Susha Varughese, Moganavatsala Jeevanantham
The COVID-19 pandemic has engulfed the whole planet, including the education sector in Malaysia. As a result, the quality of lecturers’ work is critical in maintaining the number of students in a u...
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Preparing public management students for mixed methods research Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Lynn Hewlett, Merle Werbeloff
Mixed methods approaches are increasing advocated for researching complex problems in the social sciences, but they are not widely used by postgraduate students of public management. This article d...
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University and Covid-19: The experience of the academic community of the single-cycle Master’s degree in law of the University of Genoa Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Patrizia Magarò, Loic Accordino, Davide Cugnetto, Constantin Gheorghe, Anduela Keqi, Chiara Laigueglia, Ludovica Luciani, Giovanni Pellegrino, Laura Scarola, Brigitta Tünde Sütő, Margherita Valle
The article focuses on challenges and disruption in the higher education sector in Italy due to COVID-19 pandemic. The study explores the experience of the Single-Cycle Master’s Degree in Law of th...
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School library and students’ understanding of public administration Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Fred Awaah, Peter Akinsola Okebukola, Juma Shabani, Solomon Yeboah, Olasunkanmi Adio Gbeleyi, Heloo Sefiamor Emmanuella
Student difficulty in public administration has witnessed some writings within the African context. Although these studies are emerging, there seems to be minimal research on the influence of schoo...
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Internationalizing public administration education: Why and how? Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Allison C White
Public administration educators in the United States have renewed their interest in incorporating an international perspective into their teaching. Why is this perspective important for students and how can educators integrate it meaningfully? In this article, I provide an argument for the internationalization of public administration curricula, generate nine “principles of practice” to help guide
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Transforming research methods education through data science literacy Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Michael Overton, Stephen Kleinschmit
Mass adoption of advanced information technologies is fueling a need for public servants with the skills to manage data-driven public agencies. Public employees typically acquire data skills through graduate research methods courses, which focus primarily on research design and statistical analysis. What data skills are currently taught, and what content should Master of Public Administration (MPA)
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The digitalization of learning and teaching practices in higher education institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Amina Jakoet-Salie, Kutu Ramalobe
In the year 2021, the world was exposed to and is still facing a health pandemic, the Covid-19 pandemic. The modes of learning and teaching had to adapt to the unexpected challenges and multiple demands on education because of the turbulent waters of Covid-19. The situation remains fluid as there is an international and national escalation of the infection rates and as lockdown restrictions are lifted
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Communication pedagogy in public affairs programs: Insights from a study of MPA and MPP curricula Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Aroon Manoharan, Nandhini Rangarajan
Communication is a critical government function that has important implications for public administration and effective governance. This research study explores how communication competencies are taught in public affairs programs in the United States. Based on a general web content analysis of graduate programs, and specific analyses of course titles, course descriptions, and course syllabi, this study
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Teaching crisis management before and after the pandemic: Personal reflections Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Paul ‘t Hart
This reflective contribution tells the story of a veteran public sector crisis management (CM) researcher’s 35-year journey with educating students and CM practitioners, It offers preliminary insights about how the pandemic experience might – and should – induce a significant rethink of how educators conceptualize the nature of crises and the challenges governments and public agencies face in coping
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Undergraduate education in public administration and public service motivation: A quasi-experiment with the intervention of an introductory course Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Taehee Kim, Kiwhan Kim, Sangmook Kim
This study aims to explore whether an introductory undergraduate course in Public Administration might be an appropriate educational tool for enhancing public service motivation (PSM) among undergraduate students. A quasi-experimental design involves surveying participants both before and after the intervention (taking an Introduction to Public Administration course) to examine whether their levels
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The experience of teaching public administration in Russia during the pandemic in 2020–2021 Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Guliya K Nurlybaeva
The main aim of the study was to analyze the impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic both on the public services and on public administration (PA) education, to find out how the process of teaching of future public administrators had changed during the Pandemic and how these changes could possibly influence the process of teaching public administrators in future. The research methods included theoretical and
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Identifying and interpreting government successes: An assessment tool for classroom use Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Scott Douglas, Paul ‘t Hart, Judith Van Erp
Journalists, politicians, watchdog institutions, and public administration scholars devote considerable energy to identifying and dissecting failures in government. Studies and case-studies of policy, organizational, and institutional failures in the public sector figure prominently in public administration curriculums and classrooms. Such a focus on failures provides students with cautionary tales
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The use of case study analysis in public affairs education: Linking theory and practice Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-03-11 David C Powell
Case study analysis has been used for many years across a variety of disciplines. One of the primary advantages of case study analysis is its ability to illustrate the nexus between theory and practice. This paper explores the use of case study analysis as a culminating experience in a large Master of Public Administration (MPA) program in the western United States. Case studies are examined using
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A renewed purpose for public serving professionals focused graduate programs in global higher education ecosystem Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Maki Ito Tsumagari
This explanatory study explored what graduate programs should embrace in educating public serving professionals to become able to respond to paramount challenges unknown at the time of studies. For conceptual frameworks, the study employed (a) principal-agent theory on how predominant philanthropic organizations pushed the creation of globalized higher education industry post-World War II (WWII) and
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How to implement project-based quantitative classroom projects while supporting curricular design: A case study from a quantitative methods course in a public affairs program Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Adriana Cordova, Joanna Lahey, Lala Taghiyeva
This article outlines how Master of Public Administration (MPA)/Master of Public Policy (MPP) programs can integrate a project-based learning opportunity to study curricular design and accreditation needs in their quantitative courses. Bridging together theory and the practical implications of data collection and analysis is important for students’ long-term professional development. We provide case
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Enhancing sense of belonging and satisfaction among online students in multi-track public affairs programs: A case analysis of immersion courses Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-02-26 John B Stephens, Ricardo S Morse
Many graduate public affairs programs offer both residential and online options for students. One of the challenges for multi-format programs is creating a sense of belonging among online students who may never set foot on campus. In 2017, the MPA program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill developed an “immersion” course designed for residential and online students in a weekend intensive
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A case example of teaching reflective policing to police students Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Mario S Staller, Swen Koerner
Reflection is an important component of professional practice in the field of policing. While reflection goes beyond a mere evaluation of officer behavior in police-citizen interaction based on legitimacy and functionality, deeper levels of reflections, where underlying assumptions are challenged do not automatically take place within the system of policing. In the current paper, we describe and reflect
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Keeping public officials fit. Does Mexico’s access to information and data protection state level regulator authorities provide the right training? Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Rigoberto Silva-Robles, Harold Sidney Dutton-Treviño
The purpose of this work is to provide empirical evidence as to how state level Freedom of Information or Access to Information and data protection regulator bodies in Mexico carry out their training tasks. We use different theoretical assumptions, particularly those that refer to the idea of “training in the public sector” regarding two aspects that allow to account, at least in part, about the referred
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Impact of leadership style on employee commitment in Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Mohammed HassenYimam
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the impact of leadership styles on employee commitment at Bahir Dar University. Methodology: In order to achieve the objectives of the study, a cross-sectional survey design was conducted on a sample of 372 employees from eight different campuses of Bahir Dar University. A stratified sampling technique was applied so as to obtain a representative sample
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Teaching international comparative public management through a development lens Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Jeffrey D Straussman, David E Guinn
The article tackles the question, how to provide students with a comparative orientation to public administration. We eschew the older tradition of comparing major systems such British parliamentary system or French bureaucratic approaches to organizations’ structure. Rather, we seek to understand public administration in countries with different cultures, histories, and political regimes by focusing
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Will cultural teaching methods influence student understanding of politics and bureaucracy in the public administration curriculum of African countries within the COVID-19? Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Fred Awaah,Peter Okebukola,Juma Shabani,Kolawole Raheem,Michael Ahove,Franklin Onowugbeda,Deborah Agbanimu
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Challenges in curriculum development process aimed at revising the capabilities of future public financial managers Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-12-05 Lotta-Maria Sinervo, Anna-Aurora Kork, Kirsi Hasanen
Traditionally, civil servants and public officials are highly educated and have strong administrative expertise. Public financial managers have been regarded as ‘guardians of the public purse’, who have solid budgeting, accounting and auditing skills. However, the development of ‘mega-trends’ such as digitalization and e-government affect the future of the public sector by challenging the traditional
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Introduction to special issue: Curriculum design in public administration education: Challenges and perspectives Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-10-25 John Connolly, Alice Moseley
This special issue for Teaching Public Administration (TPA) has emerged from a special joint panel of the Public Policy and Administration Group of the UK Political Studies Association and the Public Administration Committee (PAC) at the latter’s conference at Northumbria University in September 2019. The theme of the panel was Curriculum Design in Public Administration Education: Challenges and Perspectives
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Understanding the case method: Teaching public administration case by case Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Eckhard Schröter, Manfred Röber
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
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Internship alternatives: Solutions for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Darren A Wheeler, Brandon C Waite
Internships are an integral component of most undergraduate and graduate public administration programs. These learning opportunities allow students to get practical experience in a workplace setting before graduation and provide them with an opportunity to apply knowledge gained in the classroom to the “real world.” But what are students, departments, and employers to do when circumstances—including
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The rationale for embedding ethics and public value in public administration programmes Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-07-15 Vanesa Fuertes
When crises occur, revisiting given knowledge and practices seems sensible and necessary. For instance, the recent financial crisis in 2008 lead to questioning the role played by financial institutions and business schools in precipitating the crisis by allowing questionable professional ethics to go unchallenged. There is a current crisis in public administration in the UK, visible in the growing
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Wildavsky or a workbook: Advice for the novice faculty member teaching undergraduate public finance Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-07-07 Marc A Wallace
The article examines five areas novice instructors should consider before teaching public finance. First, instructors should ascertain their comfort level along the qualitative-quantitative continuum. This ranges from a high-level overview of the budgetary process, politics, players, and outcomes (qualitative) before descending into spreadsheets with formulas for decision making (quantitative). Second
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Everything old is old again Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-06-18 John J Carroll
A purpose of the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program is to translate theory into practical concepts to prepare leaders of the public and nonprofit sectors. The practice continues to employ entrepreneurial activities throughout the world. The academy has researched, written, and published extensively about entrepreneurship to build knowledge. The author pulled together aspects of the research
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Training for policy capacity: A practitioner’s reflection on an in-house intervention for civil servants, students, and post-secondary graduates in Canada Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-05-27 Bobby Thomas Cameron
A substantial amount of scholarly work focuses on conceptualizing, theorizing and studying the policy capacity of governments. Yet, guidance for practitioners on developing policy capacity training programs is lacking. In this article, I reflect on my experience as a public servant in the provincial government of Prince Edward Island where I designed and implemented the Policy Capacity Development
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How managers and students view public service: The theoretical vs. practical divide Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-05-26 John R Wood, Kenneth Kickham
This paper examines existing management concepts and practices that make up three contemporary approaches to public policy and public administration. We attempt to understand whether municipal public administrators and public administration graduate students validate these perspectives in “reality” versus “ideally.” Addressing the extent to which practicing public administrators and students identify
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Proverbs of administration at 75: Long live proverbs? Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-05-19 Matthew R Auer
On the 75th anniversary of Herbert A Simon’s “Proverbs of Administration,” it is fitting to consider its place in the public administration canon, with an eye to contemporary realities. In Proverbs, Simon interrogated prevailing mid-century “principles of public administration.” But even as he reduced in rank each “principle,” he preserved a central tenet of earlier pioneers of a “science of administration”—namely
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Institutional and programmatic determinants for graduate public affairs’ online education: Assessing the influence of faculty workload Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-05-19 Bruce L Blair, Derek R Slagle, Adam M Williams
The research explores why some public affairs graduate programs choose to develop fully online degree offerings while others do not. The study attempts to address questions surrounding how different institutions and programs are pursuing degree offerings and the potential influence of faculty workload. The research utilizes a quantitative, cross-sectional design analyzing results from a survey on institutional
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Got HIPs? Making student engagement enhancement a core part of program development with high impact practices Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-05-10 Schnequa N Diggs
Learning how to engage students in educationally purposeful activities has been a challenge for instructors in higher education. It is often hard to push through institutionalized pedagogical boundaries rooted in traditional “teach-at-you” approaches to learning. The demands of a more diverse student body and more effective measures of student learning outcomes have led to rethinking the delivery of
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The deep organisation: The organisational view in a public management and leadership development programme Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Morten Knudsen, Magnus Larsson
This article studies the organisational view inherent in a public management and leadership development programme. Organisational views are important to study as they guide and frame the actions of the members of the organisation. In the management and leadership development programme under investigation the organisational view was a linguistic-discursive representation that was empirically inept,
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Use of active learning strategies in public affairs education: Advances and lessons from the scholarship and the practice Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Maite Careaga-Tagüeña, Pablo Sanabria-Pulido
Public affairs education can benefit from the potential of active learning practices in preparing students for the complex surroundings of real public service. This article aims to explore the use of those practices in public affairs education and the extent to which those practices are suitable in a public affairs school in a country in the global South. To do so, it follows a threefold analytical
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When heroes moonlight as graduate students: Accommodating those called into public service after the Hurricane Harvey disaster Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Jacqueline H Abernathy
This study evaluates faculty efforts to accommodate graduate students in the Tarleton State University Masters of Public Administration and Masters of Criminal Justice programs called away from classes in the first weeks of the 2017 academic year as disaster responders called into duty by Hurricane Harvey. The evaluation employed a theoretical process map to track each case (student class experience)
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Erased: Ending faculty sexual misconduct in academia – An open letter from women of public affairs education Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Sarah Young,Kimberly Wiley
The #MeToo movement is descending upon the walls of the ivory tower. The day of reckoning has come for academia to end teaching staff1 sexual misconduct. As women of public2 and third sector3 educa...
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Training and development model for municipal frontline staff Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-04-08 Rochelle G Wessels
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa states that public servants must deliver services to improve the general welfare of the citizens. The public servants therefore have a duty to the citizens to deliver effective and efficient public services that will be to the satisfaction of the citizens to improve their well-being. However, this is not the case since service delivery protests have
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Analysis of the development of competences in a Brazilian master of public administration Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-04-05 João Augusto de Campos Avaristo, Cristina Lourenço Ubeda
This paper aims to analyze the main competences developed by graduates of a professional master’s degree in Brazilian public administration. For this purpose, the research developed (i) a theoretical framework to present the main competences for public sector professionals, (ii) a bibliometric analysis with the scientific publications about development of competences in public administration between
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Book review: Strategies for Governing: Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-04-05 James L Perry
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Data science literacy: Toward a philosophy of accessible and adaptable data science skill development in public administration programs Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Michael Overton, Stephen Kleinschmit
Public administration is struggling to contend with a substantial shift in practice fueled by the accelerating adoption of information technology. New skills, competencies and pedagogies are required by the field to help overcome the data-skills gap. As a means to address these deficiencies, we introduce the Data Science Literacy Framework, a heuristic for incorporating data science principles into
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Bouncing around in a turbulent teaching environment: Teaching and researching resilience for public administration Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2021-03-19 Peter Marks, Monika Knassmüller
The COVID-19 pandemic forced surprised governments worldwide to act fast and decisively, often revealing lack of preparation for this kind of situation. However, such crises are expected to occur far more frequently than ever before. To keep societies prospering, governments, administrations, and civil servants will have to adapt quickly and effectively—and hence need to develop the required capabilities