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Sara Rinfret; Eric Wise – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2024
Public administration courses often use the pillars of public administration (e.g., efficiency, effectiveness, equity, economy, accountability, responsiveness) as foundational concepts across our core curriculum. However, our public administration curriculum is alarmingly absent of conversations about emotional labor. Put simply, emotional labor…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Self Management
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Sharicca Boldon; Tonya McIntyre; Jesse Melgares – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
Reflection can play a critical role in an educational leader's capacity to sustain and improve their leadership practices. Reflection in the form of writing allows leaders to slow down and carefully attend to their own thinking before facilitating collective thinking and decision-making in those they lead. Though educational leaders are often…
Descriptors: Reflection, Instructional Leadership, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
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Stefan A. Perun – Teaching Public Administration, 2024
This paper reported the findings from 18 qualitative interviews of students across two sections of an elective, standalone ethics course in a Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) accredited Master's of Public Administration (MPA) program at a northeast university. The findings suggested that a survey of…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Staci M. Zavattaro; Clayton Schuneman; Sharon H. Mastracci – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2024
Aspects of public service often involve tasks sometimes considered taboo, including working with grit, grime, blood, guts, grease, and stigmatized populations. Yet scholarship in our field directly incorporating dirty work remains limited yet growing. Importantly, if MPA students are not trained in how to work with and manage public sector…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Theory Practice Relationship
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Rachel Emas; Stephanie Dolamore; Peter A. Jones; Darrell Lovell; Geoffrey Whitebread; Rashmi Chordiya – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2024
Imposter Phenomenon (IP) is feelings of inadequacy and inauthenticity in settings where achievement is emphasized and valued. This exploratory study employs a survey to investigate the prevalence and underlying factors of IP among Master of Public Administration (MPA) students at seven US universities with varying institutional characteristics.…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Self Esteem, Sense of Community, Graduate Students
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Ian C. Elliott; Paul Joyce; Sofiane Sahraoui – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2024
The civil service has seen dramatic changes over the last 50 years, symbolized by the shift from Traditional Public Administration, to New Public Management and now New Public Governance. Likewise, the role and nature of people management functions has changed with the development of Strategic HR and Human Resource Development (HRD). Finally, the…
Descriptors: Government Employees, Public Administration Education, Professional Development, Higher Education
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David C. Powell – Teaching Public Administration, 2024
Public administration has a long tradition of close connections to the field of political science. As the field of public administration evolved from a basic politics administration dichotomy, it became evident that the distinction between politics and administration was nebulous at best. As such, public affairs students need exposure to, and…
Descriptors: United States Government (Course), Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes, Introductory Courses