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Sinervo, Lotta-Maria; Kork, Anna-Aurora; Hasanen, Kirsi – Teaching Public Administration, 2023
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…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Public Administration Education, Public Administration, Money Management
Meagan M. Jordan; Vickie Tyler Carnegie; Ron Carlee – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2024
The effective public sector must facilitate relationships between the government and the public that reflect the increasing cultural diversity of their communities. With the reality of increasing diversity and heightened awareness of the impact of public policies within this expanding reality, public service programs must prepare future public and…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Public Administration Education, Public Sector, Equal Education
Hall, Michael – Teaching Public Administration, 2015
Since the beginnings of Public Administration in the US and its accompanying education in other parts of the world, government and policy have become more complex. The education in Public Administration created a professional pathway to public service. The addition of education to Public Administration came out of the Progressive Movement in the…
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Public Administration, Public Administration Education, Models
Connolly, John; Gifford, Anne; Kanol, Direnç; Yilmaz, Omur – Teaching Public Administration, 2018
This article addresses the role and opportunities for public administration and public affairs education in North Cyprus. The context of the research is situated within a transnational education partnership between the University of the West of Scotland and the Management Centre of the Mediterranean (Nicosia, North Cyprus). The dominant narrative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration Education, Public Affairs Education, Global Approach
Zhang, Xuefan; Qian, Yanyu – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2020
Although China has witnessed the rapid growth of public administration (PA) education during recent decades, few studies have focused on the practical issues of lower-level tertiary PA education, namely, PA programs in vocational colleges. The methods that vocational PA programs can apply to improve educational quality are a theoretical gap since…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Public Administration Education, Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education
Carroll, John J. – Teaching Public Administration, 2022
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…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Masters Programs, Theory Practice Relationship, Entrepreneurship
Jacobs, Richard M. – Teaching Public Administration, 2016
A 2 × 2 matrix identifying four discrete thought processes was presented. The contributions of the first three processes in developing the knowledge base of public administration were detailed as were their limitations. It was argued that the fourth process--insight and its mental powers--builds upon the strengths and overcomes the limitations…
Descriptors: Researchers, Public Administration, Teachers, Scholarship
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
Ahmed, Shamima – Teaching Public Administration, 2023
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 their learnings in a meaningful way. Experiential learning is particularly relevant to Master of Public Administration Programs (MPA), which are usually…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Public Administration Education, Nonprofit Organizations, Experiential Learning
Neely, Stephen R.; Coggburn, Jerrell D.; Phelps-Hillen, Johanna – Teaching Public Administration, 2018
Following recent calls for greater synergies between public administration's (PA)'s academic and practitioner communities, this paper examines the prevalence and use of engaged teaching and faculty practices in Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA)-affiliated schools. Results are reported from a survey of PA…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Public Policy, Service Learning, Educational Practices
Engbers, Trent A – Teaching Public Administration, 2016
The teaching of research methods has been at the core of public administration education for almost 30 years. But since 1990, this journal has published only two articles on the teaching of research methods. Given the increasing emphasis on data driven decision-making, greater insight is needed into the best practices for teaching public…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Political Science, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods
Sarter, E. K. – Teaching Public Administration, 2020
The ability to engage with empirical research in a meaningful way is a vital skill for public administration (PA) students and graduates. Yet, while research methods are essential skills for PA students, it is widely acknowledged that teaching research methods in the context of social science programmes and PA in particular faces challenges. To…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Research Methodology, Teaching Methods, Experiential Learning
Svara, James H.; Baizhanov, Sanzhar – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2019
NASPAA expects accredited public affairs programs to stress public service values in their educational program. This article examines the values that are included the mission statements of 125 public affairs programs. There is wide dispersion in the number and content of the values identified in these mission statements. Content analysis of the…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Public Policy, Public Service, Values
Lück, Jacqueline; McKenna, Sioux; Harran, Marcelle – Africa Education Review, 2020
Public Management and Public Administration are important professions for an emerging democracy such as South Africa. They operate as the interface between state and public and are responsible for enacting many of the government's policies and social initiatives. Concerns about a lack of capacity in the sector suggest that those in these roles may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration, Public Administration Education, Higher Education
van der Steen, Martijn; Van Twist, Mark; Frissen, Paul – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
Senior-level civil servants can learn a lot from methods such as theory-lectures and case-teaching, but there is another resource of knowledge and insight that can be utilized more for teaching public administration: the professional experience of participants in training programmes. This paper argues that it is possible to use the professional…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Experiential Learning, Government Employees, Public Administration Education