Developing public managers for a changing world / edited by Klaus Majgaard, J.C. Ry Nielsen, Brid Quinn, John W Raine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Majgaard, Klaus, editor.

Ry Nielsen, J. C., editor.

Quin, Brid, editor.

Raine, John W., editor.

Series:

Critical perspectives on international public sector ; v. 5.

Critical perspectives on international public sector, 2045-7944 ; v. 5

Subjects (All):

Public administration--Management.

Public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, England : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2017.

Summary:

Volume 5 of Critical Perspectives in International Public Sector Management is comprised of three parts. The need for experimental learning in public management development, experimental learning formats and innovative teaching and transfer and value creation.

Contents:

Front Cover

Developing Public Managers for a Changing World

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Contributors

Editorial Advisory Board

Introduction &amp

Background

Foreword

Part I: Strategies for Facilitating Public Management and Leadership Learning

Part II: Experimentation as a Technique for Public Management Learning

The Copenhagen Forum - 1996-2016: Odyssey of a Learning and Teaching Community in Public Management

Overview

Origins

Odyssey

Outputs

Outcomes

Notes

References

Music in the Street, a Tuning-Fork for Mid-Career Teaching and Researching about Social Quality and Public Management?

Introduction

Teaching and Researching Public Administration: Four Simple Versions

Visualising the Challenges

How can We Strengthen Our TPA and UrbEd Courses so as to Support Reflective Practitioners?

A New Perspective: Social Quality

Social Quality: An Effective Tuning Fork?

Two Instructive Programmes: Rotterdam-South and Amsterdam-Bijlmer

In Search of Social Quality

The Challenge of the Artistic and Social Empowerment Elements of Social Quality

Can 'Music in the Street' be a Tuning-Fork for Mid-Career Teaching and Research?

Final Chord

Acknowledgements

Academic PA Education and Professional Practice: Innovative Methods for Linking Theory and Praxis

Professional Learning and Reflection

Single-Loop Learning

Double-Loop Learning

Deutero Learning

Organisational Learning

The Erasmus University MPA Programme

Assessing Impact

How does it Work? Impact of MPA Supported Professional Learning on the Learning Agenda

How does it Work? Assessment Based on the Peer-to-Peer Coaching Groups

Conclusions and Challenges

Feedback by Teaching Staff.

Feedback Training

Debate in Class

Emphasis on Critical and Research Minded Attitude

Acknowledgement

Civil Servants and 'Scientific Temper': Scholarly Competence for Enactment of New Realities in Professionals' Practice

Science and PA: Demand for Scholarly Competence of Civil Servants

Reflection-in-Action and the Pitfalls of Technical Rationality

Dewey's 'Scientific Temper' and a New Science for Civil Servants

Conclusion

In Favour of Co-Production

Using an Experiential Learning Approach

What is Co-Production?

Explaining the Co-Production Approach

Putting the Framework into Practice: The MPA at LSBU

The Learning Community in Action

Example One

Example Two

Further Developments

The Pedagogic Dimension: Tutor and Student Roles

Outcomes of This Approach to Learning

Limitations

Leadership in Search of Public Value: Hybrid Practices and Explorative Learning

Public Value and Emerging Governance Regimes

Public and Value as Hybrids

A Re-Entry of 'Public' into Public Administration

A Re-Entry of 'Value' into Public Purpose

Hybrid Practices and Learning - Implications

Management Education - For, about, with Public Values

Public Value and Public Values and the Changing Role of Public Managers

The Public Manager: Principal Purveyor of Public Value(s)?

Management Education - For, about, with Public Values?

Implications for the Mid-Career Classroom

Programme Content and Orientation

Conclusions

Experiential Learning and Teaching at a Distance: How Distinctive an Experience?

Electronic Learning (E-Learning).

E-Learning and Masters-Level Public Administration Programmes

Experiential-Electronic Learning (EE-Learning)

Towards 'Learner-Centeredness'

Working from a Blank 'Canvas'

Building a 'Learning Community'

Other Research on 'Online' Learning

Key Success Factors

Managination

The Rise of Strategic Complexity

The Functional Approach

The Format of Innovative Laboratories: Process and Structure

The Theoretical Learning Space

The Laboratory Learning Space

Preliminary Results

Conclusion and Implications

Experimenting with Practice - A Monstrous Pedagogy

From Reflection to Monstrosity

The Liminal Experiment

The Hybrid Experiment

Experimental Methods and Methods for Gathering Empirical Data

Ethical Challenges

Can We Justify Forcing the Managers to Experiment?

What Are the Student/Manager's Responsibilities and Ethical Demands?

The Responsibility and Ethical Demands of the Teacher

Moderate Bravery: Learning through Mundane Experiments and Storytelling

Contradictions, Paradox and Agency

The Spatial Dimension: Paradoxes as Clashing Contexts

The Temporal Dimension: Paradoxes as Re-Actualisations of Past Decisions

Agency as the Process of Collaborative Mediation of Contradictions to Make Action Possible

Moderately Brave Acts as Low-Mimetic Synthesis

Case Story: Managing the Buildings of the Academy of Arts

The Narrative: Movement of Idealisation

The Narrative: Movement of Irony

The Act: Inviting Reconciliation

The Response: Irony Strikes Back - A Two-Faced Response

Group Reflections: Refining Irony into Humour

Discussion

Acknowledgements.

References

Institutional Constraints of Experimental Learning Formats in Professional PA Master Programmes

Experiential Learning Theory (ELT)

Research Design

Description of the Case: The MPA at the University of Kassel

Findings and Discussion - Challenging Contextual Factors for Experiential Learning in Professional MPA Programmes

Learning Outcomes of Professional MPAs and the Theory-Practice-Nexus in a Systems Theory Perspective

Symbolic Utilisation

Instrumental Utilisation

Conceptual Utilisation

The Impacts of Administrative Culture

Didactical Level

Concluding Remarks: Recommendations for Professional MPA Programmes

The Audience Wheel as a Technic to Create Transformative Learning

Why Is Transformative Learning More and More Important?

From Transfer to Transformative Learning

From Cognitive to Bodily Embedded Learning Methods

Cognitive Theories about Reflection Methods

Transformative Learning Requires Bodily Embedded Reflections

An Outline for New Learning Theories

Art-Based Experiments Affect Sensations and Creativity

Continuous Relationship between Social and Aesthetic Drama

The Audience Wheel - An Orchestrated Reflection Practice

Liminality Creates Transformation

Aesthetic Reflexivity and Transformative Learning

The Concept of Learning in Practice

An Actual Case of Transformative Learning

Analysis of the Case

The Value of Transformative Learning

Note

Thinking-Space as Research Creation: The Opportunity for a Qualitative Better Welfare Just Like That

Opening: A spontaneous welfare wonder

Central Points

Approach and Contribution

Research as Creation

The Experiment with Future Public Management Education Now.

Intensifying the Opportunity for Welfare Wonders: Wandering as Wondering

Step 1: Spacing Organisations

Step 2: Thinking-Spaces as Research Creation

Step 3: After-Affects of Thinking-Spaces

Step 4: Thinking-Spaces as Spaces Folded into One Another

Step 5: Thinking-spaces as Unpredictable Poly-rhythmic Assemblage of Multiple Ritornellos

Step 6: The Co-affecting Space Intensifies the Futures Future

After-Affects Are Becoming Pre-Affects: Pure Future

Practical Implications

Concluding Perspectives

Afterword: From Frenetic to Phronetic? Developing Public Managers for a Changing World

An Agenda for Future Management Development Education

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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