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Ongaro, Edoardo – Teaching Public Administration, 2019
Public administration can be considered as an applied, interdisciplinary field, whose study demands the contribution of a range of disciplines, including political science, management, law, sociology and others. The article argues that the disciplines of public administration should also include philosophy, not as a discipline (philosophy is not a…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Public Administration Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Higher Education
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Henson, Cassandra R. – Teaching Public Administration, 2019
As the realm of public service and its relative partnerships (both social and economic) continues to change, so must the leadership charged with managing it. Gone are the days when a single government purview was sufficient for managing public service delivery, focused on preconceived notions of what citizens supposedly want. Public value and the…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Public Service, Cooperation, Trust (Psychology)
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Pacheco, Regina Silvia; Franzese, Cibele – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
This paper discusses the challenges of professional education for mid-career public managers at graduate level, pointing out pitfalls to avoid and obstacles to face. Analyzing the Brazilian case, the goal is to raise issues that may also be present in other cases. The main argument developed here is that the puzzle faced by graduate programs on…
Descriptors: Management Development, Public Service Occupations, Professional Education, Graduate Study
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van der Waldt, Gerrit – Teaching Public Administration, 2014
Public administration is a highly diverse and evolving field of scientific inquiry. The study domain is characterised further by often-competing paradigmatic perspectives and seemingly endless teaching modalities. There seems to be an increasing realisation that answers to complex societal challenges cannot be solved within the knowledge…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Design
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Zhu, Yanhan; Wu, Juan – Higher Education Studies, 2014
The innovation is the soul of one nation making progresses. To build an innovative country, we need to train more innovative talents who is capable of public administration. The innovative talents training of public administration undergraduate faces a lot of problems, such as the influences of traditional culture, the constraint of education…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Public Administration Education, Talent Development, Undergraduate Students
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Beyer, Bonnie – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2006
Public education is one portion of a complex system of society that extends far beyond the walls of the schoolhouse. The administration of educational institutions is impacted and influenced by businesses, communities, governmental agencies, laws, special interest and not-for-profit groups, and the general citizenry. The demand of these groups to…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, School Administration, Universities, Program Development