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TEACHING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: EDUCATION OR TRAINING?*
Author(s) -
Chapman Ralph J K
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8500.1987.tb02579.x
Subject(s) - ambivalence , administration (probate law) , aside , professional administration , public relations , field (mathematics) , public administration , training (meteorology) , political science , public management , sociology , psychology , social psychology , law , art , physics , literature , mathematics , meteorology , pure mathematics
There is an ambivalence in attitudes to public administration as a field of study among both academics and practitioners in Australia. Teachers, researchers, students, public servants seeking training and managers have differing interests and expectations. Disagreements about the field have contributed to the lack of a unified framework of concepts, while the field has fragmented into public administration, public policy and public management, aside from other divisions such as “old” versus “new” public administration. “Education” and “training” have taken diverging paths and academics and practitioners have drifted apart. There needs to be a closer dialogue that can only be based on a generally agreed paradigm for Australian Public Administration as a field of study.