British public administration: The status of the taught discipline

Bottom, Karin A., Elliott, Ian and Moller, Francisco (2022) British public administration: The status of the taught discipline. In: Handbook of Teaching Public Administration. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 75-85. ISBN 9781800375680

[img]
Preview
Text
Bottom_Elliott_Moller_2022_British_public_administration_The_status_of_the_taught_discipline.pdf - Accepted Version

Download (216kB) | Preview
Official URL: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-teach...

Abstract

A sizeable literature on the history of British public administration (PA) centres on the teaching of the subject. Indeed, a secondary literature explores the history of the discipline and much of this points to fragmentation and a perceived decline of the subject; the causes of this decline largely being seen as external. However, an alternative reading suggests the discipline’s resistance to change sowed the seeds of its perceived demise. Here, an analysis of postgraduate PA education in Britain is presented and we map the discipline’s educational offer in HE. While key programmes have been discontinued, the number taught in mainland Britain and Northern Ireland has increased. Our analysis presents PA as a multidisciplinary subject, showing the seeds of development. Despite retaining a commitment to traditional teaching material, an integration of less traditional subject matter is evident. This suggests a slow but growing cognisance of the discipline’s need to modernise.

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: public administration, higher education, pedagogy, practice, curriculum
Subjects: N100 Business studies
N900 Others in Business and Administrative studies
Department: Faculties > Business and Law > Newcastle Business School
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 20 Jun 2022 11:19
Last Modified: 01 Dec 2022 08:00
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/49355

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

View more statistics