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Overton, Michael; Kleinschmit, Stephen – Teaching Public Administration, 2022
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…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Public Administration Education, Data, Information Literacy
Straussman, Jeffrey D.; Guinn, David E. – Teaching Public Administration, 2023
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…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Public Administration Education, Masters Programs, International Education
Pliscoff, Cristian – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2023
Chile's Public Administration Education (PAE) is not a new academic domain. Its origin dates to the second part of the 19th century. However, it was not until 1954 that the University of Chile decided to open an academic program in the subject. The current article is an effort to share the Chilean experience with the public administration…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration Education, Educational History, Public Administration
Beth M. Rauhaus – Teaching Public Administration, 2024
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 achieving the pedagogical goals of linking theory to practice and achieving the NASPAA competencies. "New Amsterdam" is used as a case study for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Theory Practice Relationship, Public Administration, Television
Rangarajan, Nandhini; Lottman, Mark; Earp, James – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2022
Considerable scholarly attention has been paid to various efforts aimed at preparing graduate students for careers as practitioners of public administration. One such approach is hiring practitioners-in-residence (PIR) or employing professors of practice. This paper first reports results of a web content analysis of 355 NASPAA programs that…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Masters Programs, Public Administration, College Faculty
Overton, Michael; Kleinschmit, Stephen – Teaching Public Administration, 2023
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…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Data Science, Information Literacy, Masters Programs
Rinfret, Sara R. – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2020
An integral part of a public affairs education is our ability as educators to adapt and respond to the skills needed for a diverse and changing workforce. Historically, public administration programs have been responsive to an ever-changing workforce by the way we deliver curriculum (e.g., face to face, online, hybrid). This paper invites us to…
Descriptors: Public Affairs Education, Public Administration Education, Access to Education, Online Courses
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
Szypszak, Charles – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2021
This article argues that law cases are rich raw material for analytical ethics education in public administration. While scholars acknowledge that law can play some role in teaching ethics, they have aimed outside the law for ways to engage students in developing a sense of ethical responsibility. Law cases are a readily available resource to…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Ethical Instruction, Public Administration Education, Court Litigation
Evans, Michelle D.; Knepper, Hillary J. – Teaching Public Administration, 2021
Normative management behaviors have resulted in the patterns of today--a lack of equity in leadership positions and policies that are less favorable toward women. Meanwhile, public service values, such as respect, equity, diversity, and inclusiveness, are central foci among the professional standards and norms within the public administration…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Inclusion, Diversity, Models
Knox, Colin – Teaching Public Administration, 2019
This article is a contribution to a special issue of "Teaching Public Administration," which offers teachers with many years' experience the opportunity to reflect on changes over time. The context for this paper is teaching public administration in Northern Ireland, a region of the UK that has a sizeable public sector but a distinctive…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Foreign Countries, Universities, Conflict
Rivera, Jason D. – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2019
Across all social science disciplines, but in particular public administration, there is a shared concern about the costs of using traditional random samples to generate data, and its impact on researchers' ability to engage in "quality" research. As a result of these costs, more academics, practitioners, and students are turning to…
Descriptors: Public Affairs Education, Public Administration, Social Science Research, Graduate Students
Harper, Robin A. – Teaching Public Administration, 2018
Governments write us into being by compelling the public to fill in tiny boxes on forms revealing our most private information. These personal details become matters of public record. What if students thought about how writing in public administration shapes us? In the spring of 2015, my Public Administration class joined with New York City…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Educational Practices, Praxis, Art Education
Paige L. Moore; Ratna Okhai – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2024
This simulation provides public administration, public policy, and management students and practitioners with an immersive disaster scenario. The table-top exercise provides an example of how municipal leaders can prepare for disaster scenarios and the importance of embedding social equity into disaster response. Additionally, it provides an…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Natural Disasters, Emergency Programs, American Indians
Douglas, Scott; 't Hart, Paul; Van Erp, Judith – Teaching Public Administration, 2022
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…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Governance, Public Administration Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique)