Emotional Labor: Why and How to Teach It
Sharon H. Mastracci, Meredith A. Newman, and Mary E. Guy
Do we prepare our students for the emotional labor that many of them will need to provide? Mastracci, Newman & Guy discuss the importance of emotive skills, how they appear in the new NASPAA standards, and explain how to incorporate them into a curriculum.
Preparing For and Responding to Student Incivilities: Starting the Dialogue in Public Affairs Education
Stan Barrett, Nadia Rubaii-Barrett, and John Pelowski
!@#*!! Barrett, Rubaii-Barrett and Pelowski argue that incivility is increasing throughout educational settings, and that we cannot expect even our graduate programs to be exempt. They delineate recommendations for preventing this problem in Public Affairs education, arguing that, because civility is a key skill for public and nonprofit administrators, we must teach it.
Safeguarding the Public Trust: Can Administrative Ethics Be Taught?
Sheila Suess Kennedy and Deanna Malatesta
“The changing nature of the public sector brings new challenges to governance and ethical decision making,” argue Kennedy and Malatesta. Here they outline and assess an ethics module based on an approach developed by Walton, Stearns, and Crespy in 1997.
Teaching Administrative Ethics in Nonprofit Management: Recommendations to Improve Degrees, Certificates, and Concentration Programs
Jeffrey L. Brudney and J. Michael Martinez
Jeffrey L. Brudney and J. Michael Martinez state that ethics education is necessary to provide protection against ethical lapses in the nonprofit sector. They survey nonprofit education programs and illuminate what they argue is the fragmented state of ethics education in this field today.
Public Service Education: Adding Value in the Public Interest
Kathryn E. Newcomer and Heather Allen
By creating PA programs and teaching those who will become public and nonprofit administrators, we hope to prepare students to serve in the public interest. But how can we tell if we’ve achieved this goal, and what factors would increase the likelihood? Newcomer and Allen provide a framework for assessing program success.
Knowledge Transfer of Educational Programs in Public Management: Transfer-Inhibiting and Transfer-Enhancing Factors in the Belgian Public Sector
Bruno Broucker
Knowledge -> PA programs -> Students -> Organizations? Broucker develops a model of knowledge transfer, compares outcomes of a traditional and an executive master’s program, and thereby identifies factors that make the desired knowledge-transfer chain more likely and less likely.
Methods Taught in Public Policy Programs: Are Quantitative Methods Still Prevalent?
Göktuğ Morçöl and Nadezda P. Ivanova
Göktuğ Morçöl and Nadezda P. Ivanova perform content analysis of methods course descriptions from 44 public policy programs to determine which methods currently are state-of-the-art. Despite some claims for a post-positivist turn in public policy, they find that quantitative methods still prevail both in programs and in use by professionals. But why?
Information Literacy in Public Affairs Curriculum
Rita Ormsby and Daniel W. Williams
Information literacy seems increasingly important, but how does one fit it into the curriculum? This article indicates how existing courses can help with this task, obviating the need for new courses to be added.
CONVERSATION STARTERS
Let’s Get Them Out of the Country! Reflecting on the Value of International Immersion Experiences for MPA Students
Sarah E. Ryan
In the Journal’s first “Conversation Starter,” Ryan argues for the importance of international immersion experiences for PA students and outlines some factors that make immersion effective.
BOOK REVIEW
Review of
The Application of Statistics to Policy Analysis and Management: An Introduction
by John
Rohrbaugh: Three-Part, User-Friendly Textbook Increases the Odds of
Practitioners Learning Statistical Analysis
Andrea E. Mayo reviews an unconventionally designed statistics textbook that is intended to be cheap and flexible as well as useful. She also compares it to some other, commonly used statistics texts, and discusses when each would be more useful.
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice
The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal
