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Influence of gender and career interest on African university students’ perceived difficult concepts in the study of public administration 性别和职业兴趣对非洲大学生公共管理学习困难概念的影响

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2020-11-02 DOI: 10.1177/0144739420968870

Fred Awaah, P. Okebukola, A. Ebisin, Deborah O. Agbanimu, Esther O. Peter, O. A. Ajayi, Olasunkanmi A. Gbeleyi, Francis A. Onyewuchi, A. Oladejo, M. Adewusi, Ibukunolu A. Ademola, Franklin U. Onowugbeda, Tokunbo Odekeye, Rianat Lawal

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引用次数: 16

Building student engagement through co-production and curriculum co-design in public administration programmes 通过公共行政课程中的共同制作和课程共同设计来培养学生的参与度

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.1177/0144739420968862

Ian C. Elliott, Ian Robson, A. Dudau

引用次数: 10

Understanding theory in social science research: Public administration in perspective 社会科学研究中的理解理论:透视公共行政

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2020-10-12 DOI: 10.1177/0144739420963153

Onah Celestine Chijioke, A. Ikechukwu, A. Aloysius

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引用次数: 8

Designing and implementing policy writing assessments: A practical guide 设计和实施政策写作评估:实用指南

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2020-10-06 DOI: 10.1177/0144739420961442

A. Judge

引用次数: 3

Teaching in uncertain times: The future of public administration education 不确定时代的教学：公共管理教育的未来

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/0144739420963154

Bruce D. McDonald

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引用次数: 23

Local governments and sustainable development: Nurturing best practices through horizontal learning process (HLP) across countries 地方政府与可持续发展:通过横向学习过程(HLP)在各国培育最佳做法

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2020-09-30 DOI: 10.1177/0144739420963161

S. Lahiri, J. Rajan

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引用次数: 1

Value conflicts in academic teaching 学术教学中的价值冲突

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2020-07-17 DOI: 10.1177/0144739420937755

G. de Graaf

{"title":"Value conflicts in academic teaching","authors":"G. de Graaf","doi":"10.1177/0144739420937755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0144739420937755","url":null,"abstract":"Many professors will recognize the dilemma when having to choose between the values of professionalism and of collegiality. Everyone will endorse these two values as important in academic teaching, yet professors sometimes find them conflicting. The central research question of this manuscript is threefold: which value conflicts do academic teachers perceive in the Netherlands; what strategies are used to deal with these conflicts; and what value profiles do they have? The empirical study took place at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Data from Q-methodological and 32 semi-structured interviews were gathered and analysed to answer the research question. Thirty-five of the 41 dilemmas found fell within three categories: dilemmas in this particular case study of higher education occur mainly in the area of quality versus efficiency, quality versus equity and between equality and reasonableness. Mostly the old institutional professional values (quality of teaching, equality, and reasonableness) prevail among the academic teachers. Yet, in these times of cutbacks, the tensions between the professional and economic value systems are clearly prevalent in this Dutch case study. The most important coping strategy is hybridization. This indicates something important about the profession of academic teacher. Hybridization is a strategy often used when professionals cannot choose between two values because they value both too highly. For better or worse, the academic teachers (in this case) want to guard the quality of teaching against pressures from career demands (doing research and publish successfully) and from cutbacks and concomitant heavy teaching loads.","PeriodicalId":44241,"journal":{"name":"Teaching Public Administration","volume":"39 1","pages":"107 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2020-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0144739420937755","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43615882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

Building inclusive PA classrooms: The Diversity Inclusion Model 构建包容的PA教室:多元包容模式

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2020-07-14 DOI: 10.1177/0144739420937762

M. Evans, Hillary J. Knepper

引用次数: 11

Food insecurity among public administration graduate students 公共管理研究生的食物不安全问题

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2020-07-06 DOI: 10.1177/0144739420935964

D. Mallinson

引用次数: 2

Teaching social media and public administration: Applying four approaches to an emerging issue 教授社交媒体和公共管理：对一个新出现的问题采用四种方法

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Teaching Public Administration Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/0144739419886630

M. McBeth, A. M. Brewer, Mackenzie N. Smith

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引用次数: 1