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Title The dilemma of public administration education in South Africa. Teaching or learning?
Full text https://repository.ubn.ru.nl//bitstream/handle/2066/132435/132435.pdf; http://hdl.handle.net/2066/132435
Date 2014
Author(s) Kroukamp, H.; Vries, M.S. de
Abstract Contains fulltext : 132435.pdf (Publisher's version ) (Open Access) - This article points to the adverse circumstances in which public administration education and training has to take place in developing countries, more specifically in South Africa. This is especially seen in the combination of scarce resources and rapidly increasing enrolment. The consequence thereof is that the didactics of education and training suffer in becoming characterized by mere teaching instead of the promotion of learning. The article points to a serious dilemma especially faced under such difficult circumstances, namely that a curriculumeither addresses all the subjects relevant froman academic perspective and conformto international accreditation criteria, and becomes deficient in the way all these topics are taught'or opts to prioritize topics based on a skills-needs analysis and optimizes the way in which this limited number of topics is learned. - 11 p.
Subject(s) Distributional Conflicts in a Globalizing World: Consequences for State-Market-Civil Society Arrangements
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor
Source Teaching Public Administration, 32, 2, pp. 158-168
Identifier 10.1177/0144739413515266
Repository Nijmegen - Radbout University of Nijmegen
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