Read what the experts are saying, in the following new articles from The Journal of Public Affairs Education.  This is the fifth issue of JPAE to be published under the new editor, Heather E. Campbell, at Arizona State University's School of Public Affairs. To view any of the articles below, simply click on the article title.


WINTER 2010 ARTICLES:

From the Editor-Special 15th Anniversary Volume
Heather E. Campbell introduces this issue and announces that Volume 16 celebrates 15 years of JPAE! Each of the 4 issues making up this year’s volume will include a reflection from a former JPAE editor.

From the Guest Editor
Diane M. Kimoto introduces a Symposium of articles from the 2009 Teaching Public Administration Conference (TPAC).

Reflections on Founding JPAE: Fifteen Years After
Danny L. Balfour
JPAE’s first managing editor reflects on the Journal’s seemingly tenuous start and how JPAE developed strength.

What We Have Learned from the NASPAA Standards Review Process
Jeffrey A. Raffel
In this print version of NASPAA-president Raffel’s address, he details 10 lessons he learned via the standards review process—including some about NASPAA’s reach, leadership, members, and friends; and some about our field, new standards, and accreditation.

Symposium: Articles from the 2009 Teaching Public Administration Conference

Preparing MPA Students to Succeed in Government-Nonprofit Collaboration: Lessons from the Field Christopher S. Horne & Tommi V. Paris How do we manage the Collaborative State? Public managers increasingly need to reach outside their own agencies and manage cross-sector collaborations. Horne and Paris interviewed 30 experienced public and nonprofit managers and used grounded theory to distill how degree programs can better help students prepare for this new collaborative reality. The Taken-for-Granted Labor of Communication: Seeing Beyond Words Diane M. Kimoto EL + CAT = Better Administration? Taking a novel approach, Kimoto combines theories of emotional labor (EL) and communications accommodation theory (CAT). Then, she details the “Seeing Beyond Words” exercise that can be used to help students usefully combine these theories to enhance public and nonprofit administration and reduce EL fatigue. Modeling Team-Development Lifecycle in Public Administration Courses Maja Husar Holmes Cede control and trigger storming?! Many college courses include teamwork; Holmes argues we should go beyond simply using teams, and turn entire classes into team-learning exercises. By doing this, students actually learn how to create and manage teams, rather than just how to survive them. Read Holmes’ argument that the team-work teacher should embrace ceding control, and not only tolerate, but also trigger, the “storming” part of group-work. Engaging Students to Connect Beyond the Text: A Reflection on the Value of Professionals as Adjuncts Peter Letzmann, Ashley Nickels, & Jennifer Stockdale Adjunct faculty with professional positions outside the academy can bring special strengths to teaching. Letzmann, Nickels, and Stockdale discuss how professional networks and experiences can be used to enrich learning outcomes.

An Education Strategy for Practitioners in Public Administration Master’s Programs
Frans-Bauke van der Meer & Arthur Ringeling
At the MPA program for practitioners at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, faculty have found that teaching mid-career students how to apply their new knowledge is not as easy as one might assume. In order to succeed, Van der Meer and Ringeling recommend first de-linking students from their unexamined assumptions, and then re-linking their new knowledge and practical experience in different, more useful ways. Van der Meer and Ringeling detail how this can be done.

Beyond Budgeting: Public-Service Financial Education in the 21st Century
Robert M. Purtell & James W. Fossett
Writing during this era of financial crisis, increased cross-sector collaboration, and a hollowing of the state, Purtell and Fosset persuasively argue that PA programs need to increase the sophistication of financial education. And, recognizing that it can be difficult to add courses to programs, they offer a plan.

Book Review: America, the Owner’s Manual: Making Government Work For You
Qian Hu notes that “A Learn-by-Doing Approach Makes this Book a Field Guide for Effective Citizen Participation” and that America, the Owner’s Manual can be useful as the primary text in undergraduate classes or as a supplemental text in graduate classes.

Announcement and Call for Papers: 33rd Annual National Teaching Public Administration Conference


Call for Papers: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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