SHIFTING SANDS: TEACHING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN A CLIMATE OF CHANGE
作者:
JOHN GREENWOOD,
HEATHER EGGINS,
期刊:
Public Administration
(WILEY Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 73,
issue 1
页码: 143-163
ISSN:0033-3298
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00821.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
This article analyses influences which in recent decades have changed the way in which public administration has been taught in British higher education. Focusing mainly on the former polytechnics, the article argues that a curriculum shift away from the social sciences and towards management, and changes in the nature of the British public sector, have profoundly influenced approaches to teaching public administration. It suggests that learning strategies are closely related to debate about the nature of the discipline and its location within the academic spectrum. The article also raises questions about the extent to which public administration teachers in British universities are equipped to present the more applied and skills‐based teaching which has often been adopted in recent years, and the tensions which this might pose particularly in the‘new’universities with the increasing emphasis upon academic res
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