Challenges to Public Administration Education: Comparative Research on MPA Core Curriculum from Nine Countries
In recent decades, the education of public administrators has been given renewed emphasis in public service reform. This poses an important question -what should be in the curriculum? This is important because the content of the curriculum will help shape the public servants who have a significant influence on the quality of public service and public policy. This study attempts to explore the issue of curriculum design by reviewing and comparing the core curriculum of MPA programs in different countries. Using information from the website of 25 universities in 9 countries and applying content analysis, this study describes and compares the core components of the curriculum. Although there is much variation, two curriculum emphases emerge -programs that are skills-based and those that are knowledge-based. These emphases show some regionalism and present many challenges. It is necessary to think carefully about potential consequence of public administration education, and prudently choose to the content and the education.
Geoff Gallop GUO Hong-ling
Graduate School of Government, University of Sydney, Australia, NSW 2006 School of Public Administration, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, P.R.China, 610031
国际会议
2011 International Conference on Public Administration(2011公共管理国际会议)
成都
英文
909-915
2011-10-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）