ERIC Number: EJ1207100
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Mar
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-0144-7394
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'Whatever You Say, Say Nothing': Teaching Public Administration in Northern Ireland
Teaching Public Administration, v37 n1 p107-120 Mar 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 and unstable structure of governance. The paper begins by summarizing the pedagogic polemic in teaching public administration, how this played out in a devolved region of the UK that has witnessed political conflict, and the influence of this setting on the provision of higher education for public sector officials. It addresses how a regional university has sought to meet the seemingly parochial demands of its students with the wider demands for global outward-facing teaching and research.
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Foreign Countries, Universities, Conflict, Higher Education, Masters Programs, Curriculum Design, College Curriculum, Educational Development, Politics, Governance, Government Employees, Global Approach, Job Skills
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
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