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Elliott, Ian C.; Robson, Ian; Dudau, Adina – Teaching Public Administration, 2021
Public administration as a field of work and study offers a theoretically rich yet practical tool to enact student engagement and the ideal of students-as-partners: the principles of service co-creation. Public administration, as an interdisciplinary and applied field, promoting and reflecting democratic principles, is a good source of tools for…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Curriculum Design, Public Administration Education, Cooperation
Dunning, Pamela T. – Teaching Public Administration, 2019
First Public Lecture sponsored by Teaching Public Administration (delivered at the Public Administration Conference, University of Northumbria 12 September 2018). The author provided views on why public administration is needed now more than ever, outlining how current events necessitate the need for research to inform our teaching and learning.…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Public Administration
Fuertes, Vanesa – Teaching Public Administration, 2021
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration Education, Ethics, Public Policy
Moseley, Alice; Connolly, John – Teaching Public Administration, 2021
This paper discusses both challenges and opportunities for using inquiry-based learning in public administration postgraduate education in a context of internationalisation. In particular, we discuss the appropriateness of inquiry-based learning for teaching diverse groups of students from varied international backgrounds. Inquiry-based learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Problem Based Learning, Public Administration Education
Fenwick, John – Teaching Public Administration, 2018
In this article, the aim is to explore some of the key themes to emerge in the journal during the past two decades. Each selected theme will be reviewed in the light of issues raised in particular papers. The aim of this approach is, first, to facilitate reflection upon the contribution of the journal as its subject matter has moved from a concern…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Teaching Methods, Thematic Approach, Journal Articles
Shand, Rory; Howell, Kerry E. – Teaching Public Administration, 2015
This article intends to raise a number of issues regarding teaching public administration in the higher education sector and the value it has for individuals and society. The article explores the issue of value with reference to the teaching and learning of Public Administration as a discipline in the wider societal context. The article argues…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Value Judgment
Glennon, Russ; Hodgkinson, Ian; Knowles, Joanne – Teaching Public Administration, 2019
In the context of public value, it is argued that there is a need to adopt the learning organisation philosophy to manage public service organisations better. For collaborative work with public sector managers or in management education, a fictitious scenario is presented to develop the concept of the learning organisation as paradox. Faced with…
Descriptors: Management Development, Public Administration, Organizational Change, Public Service
Fenwick, John; McMillan, Janice – Teaching Public Administration, 2014
What is understood by "public administration" in the contemporary UK higher education setting? Is it still being taught and, if so, why? These questions initially appear to be fairly straightforward but any review of the topic quickly poses some rather more tricky areas of enquiry. This article will focus upon three central questions.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration, Higher Education, Public Policy
Ribbins, Peter; Sherratt, Brian – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2016
This paper reports on part of an on-going interview-based study of the eight permanent secretaries who served at the Department for Education from 1976 to 2012. Following a discussion of the relevance of biography to the study of public sector administrators, it presents a portrait of Sir Tim Lankester. Based on his own account and that of…
Descriptors: Interviews, Educational History, Biographies, Public Officials
Ribbins, Peter; Sherratt, Brian – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
This paper reports a study of permanent secretaries who served at the Department for Education (DfE) from 1975 to 2011. Located within a context of theories that explain how government bureaucracies operate, it focuses on Michael Bichard. Appointed in July 1995 when attempts were being made to open Whitehall to non-career civil servants, he…
Descriptors: Public Officials, Public Agencies, Educational History, Educational Administration
Hallinger, Philip; Lu, Jiafang – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
The past two decades have witnessed increasing global acceptance of the important role that capable leadership plays in education reform and school improvement. Consequently, policymakers internationally have actively sought means of strengthening capacity for school-level leadership, with a particular focus on the design of more effective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Instructional Leadership, Administrator Education
Briggs, Ian; Raine, John – Teaching Public Administration, 2013
Leadership forms a key component of the curriculum of most Master of Public Administration and other public management programmes, usually doing so on the basis of assumptions that leadership is (a) both a subject and a responsibility that all such students might expect to embrace in the course of their careers; and (b) in some respects at least,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration, Public Administration Education, Leadership Training
McCulloch, Alistair – Studies in Higher Education, 2009
The dominant metaphor/model used to characterise the relationship of the student to the university, that is, the "student as consumer", is partial and not appropriate to the realities of contemporary higher education. This article suggests that co-production, a concept drawn from the public administration literature, offers a more…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Student College Relationship, Organizational Development, Foreign Countries
Greenwood, John; And Others – 1996
This paper presents preliminary findings of an ongoing research survey of 386 senior local and 59 central public administration practitioners in Britain, and used a modified survey instrument initially used at Kentucky State and Indiana State Universities. After setting out some of the similarities and differences between public administration…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Degree Requirements
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Rhodes, R. A. W. – Public Administration Review, 1996
Examines recent history of British public administration from the 1970s era of eclecticism, organizational theory, and policy analysis through the 1980s New Right Ideology and emphasis on rational choice to the 1990s, when the Economic and Social Research Council is investing significant research funds in administration. (SK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ideology, Organizational Theories, Public Administration