Development of Education in Public Administration

1. Development of Education in Public Administration

2. What is Public Administration? • Public administration can be defined as the implementation of policy by civil servants within an official government's executive framework. • Public administrators manage nearly every aspect of public service at the state and local levels offering the opportunity to help shape the future.

3. Public administration degree • A public administration degree provides an academic background for individuals pursuing a career in both government and non-governmental/non-profit organizations.

4. Development of Education in Public Administration in the USA • History: • During the first third of the 20th century professions and professional education was born • Many occupations became professions, including administration, accounting, journalism, social work and others

5. Professionalization • Recognised professions (medicine and law) strengthened pre-entry education for admission into their ranks • In the same period, higher education was professionalized: professors organized themselves and developed standards of entry

6. Carreer orientation • A large part of higher education became preparation for career occupation or for professions

7. Origins • Public administration was part of a larger movement towards professionalization • Similar to other fields (other emerging professions) • Distinctive features (fear of concentrated governmental power and bureaucracy)

8. Difficulties • Shared with other emerging professions • Lack of development or slow development of career opportunities for graduates • Shortage of financial and other resource support

9. Concerns • Professional education in public administration is concerned with: • Application, operations and performance of public administration, not primarily with theory, abstractions and research methodology

10. PA and other disciplines • It draws on other relevant disciplines (law, sociology, political science, IT, economics…) • It develops the insights and skills needed to plan, determine policy, organize, manage and implement programs and operations

11. Orientation • Professional education is problem-oriented • It is concerned with the functions, operations and substance of what is being planned and executed

12. Translation • Translate the text Development of Education in Public Administration, p. 5

13. Vocabulary • To revivify – oživjeti, vratiti u život • To assert a claim – ostvariti pravo • Accounting – računovodstvo • City planning – urbanizam • Forestry – šumarstvo • Pre-entryeducation – pripremno obrazovanje • Standardsofentry – upisni kriteriji • Emergingprofessions – profesije u razvoju • Researchmethodology – metodologija istraživanja

14. Discussthefollowing: • Professionalization of higher education • Distinctive features of education in public administration • Aims of professional education in public administration

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