Grand challenges in public administration: Implications for public service education, training, and research

Gerton, Teresa; Mitchell, J.

doi:10.1080/15236803.2019.1689780

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“…It is also true that these big thematic challenges offer potential to work across disciplines, to do important bridging work (Moynihan 2018) and to incorporate a fuller range of topics so we can more fully grasp the complex, dynamic nature of various phenomena (O'Flynn 2015). Such an approach sits well with the current focus on 'grand challenges' (Gerton and Mitchell 2019) and the notion of integrative public administration which is more problem-oriented, contextually grounded, and interdisciplinary (Carboni and Nabatchi 2019, 273). In taking stock of the COVID-19 experience to date and reflecting on public administration and management I identified a series of potential big thematic challenges that cut across levels of analysis and disciplinary boundaries, and also where we can make a difference.…”

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Confronting the big challenges of our time: making a difference during and after COVID-19

O’Flynn

2020

Public Management Review

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This article explores key challenges emanating from COVID-19 and how public management and administration research can contribute to addressing them. To do this I discuss the 'big questions' debate and then sketch two big thematic challenges. In articulating these, I point to interconnections across various levels of analysis and argue we need to work across a range of boundaries and get more comfortable with complexity. My key argument being that both during and in the aftermath of a catastrophic global pandemic, it is at the intersections, not in silos, that we are likely to move forward intellectually and practically.

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Confronting the big challenges of our time: making a difference during and after COVID-19

O’Flynn

2020

Public Management Review

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“…To date, much of the literature on social equity has focused on its overall importance (see, Frederickson, 2010), as well as the conditions of inequality within the discipline (see, Bodkin & Fleming, 2019;Thomas, 2019) and within practice (see, Blessett et al, 2019). Despite the attention that has been given to social equity, the National Academy of Public Administration recently included the need to foster social equity as one of the grand challenges for public administration (Gerton & Mitchell, 2019), suggesting it may be time to move the research on social equity into a new era. Guy and McCandless do just that.…”

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Achieving Social Equity: From Problems to Solutions by Mary E. Guy and Sean A. McCandless

McDonald

2021

J. Public Nonprof Aff.

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The recent publication of Achieving Social Equity: From Problems to Solutions, edited by Mary E. Guy and Sean A. McCandless (2020), sparks a move forward in the literature about social equity. To date, much of the literature on social equity has focused on its overall importance (see Frederickson, 2010), as well as the conditions of inequality within the discipline (see Bodkin & Fleming, 2019; Thomas, 2019) and within practice (see Blessett et al., 2019). Despite the attention that has been given to social equity, the National Academy of Public Administration recently included the need to foster social equity as one of the grand challenges for public administration (Gerton & Mitchell, 2019), suggesting it may be time to move the research on social equity into a new era. Guy and McCandless do just that. Rather than discussing the presence of social equity issues with public organizations, the text seeks to advance our understanding by connecting the literature on social equity with the practicality of the situations that administrators face. This is accomplished over a masterfully curated set of 13 chapters, each which focuses on a unique, but vital perspective on social equity.

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“… 1. It is also worth noting that this approach may help programs better prepare MPA students to meet the National Academy of Public Administration’s Grand Challenges (see Gerton and Mitchell, 2019). …”

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Teaching in uncertain times: The future of public administration education

McDonald

2020

Teaching Public Administration

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The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), and its resulting coronavirus disease 19 , needs no introduction. Since the outbreak began in December 2019, governments and nonprofit organizations around the globe have rushed to contain the pandemic and to assist those who have been impacted (McDonald and Larson, 2020;Wu et al., 2020). As the world struggles to respond, within the field of public administration, journals such as Public Administration Review, Administrative Theory and Praxis, and Review of Public Personnel Administration have led the charge to engage researchers on projects that may assist or inform the work of our practitioner counterparts (see Deslatte et al., 2020;Kettl, 2020;Maher et al., 2020;. While the research has assisted in moving the recovery forward, one area that still needs attention is what the outbreak means for public administration education.We are currently in a state of uncertainty. The spring 2020 semester that shifted programs online has ended, but the planning for the 2020-2021 academic year is still underway. Despite the reopening of many economies, the anticipated second wave looms over the heads of students, faculty, and administrators alike. It is in this purgatory that two questions of pedagogy come to mind: What does the pandemic mean for the state of online education in public administration. What does it mean for how we train students going forward? It is these two questions that I would like to address in this article. Course modalityOnline education is controversial. There are long-standing concerns within public administration, and the academy more generally, about the quality of education students

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Grand challenges in public administration: Implications for public service education, training, and research

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Confronting the big challenges of our time: making a difference during and after COVID-19

Confronting the big challenges of our time: making a difference during and after COVID-19

Achieving Social Equity: From Problems to Solutions by Mary E. Guy and Sean A. McCandless

Teaching in uncertain times: The future of public administration education

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