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The Public Field in Brazil: Toward a Multidisciplinary Educational Approach for the Professional with Multiple Roles
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Lucio, Magda L.; Almeida, Lindijane S. B.; Silveira, Raquel M. C. – Teaching Public Administration, 2018
Contemporary public management in Brazil is undergoing a great deal of transformation. From the year 2008 the Brazilian Federal government has been investing in policies and planned actions that aim to expand access to Higher Education. This paradigm shift was possible through the understanding that the agenda of public problems required trained…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Access to Education
Public Administration Education in Europe: Continuity or Reorientation?
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Hajnal, Gyorgy – Teaching Public Administration, 2015
The article explores the changing patterns of disciplinary orientation in European public administration (PA) education. The study builds on an earlier research, which defined three distinct clusters of countries, based on their specific PA education tradition. It asks whether countries' movement away from the Legalist paradigm has continued since…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Administration, Public Administration Education, Educational Change
Public Management Reform without Managers: The Case of German Public Schools
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Mintrop, Rick – International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of principals in light of public management reforms taking place in the German educational system and in reference to the empirical patterns uncovered by the papers contained in the Special Issue. Policy makers have created new expectations and new technologies that seem to suggest to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Public Administration, Educational Change
Academics Job Satisfaction and Job Stress across Countries in the Changing Academic Environments
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Shin, Jung Cheol; Jung, Jisun – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
This study examined job satisfaction and job stress across 19 higher education systems. We classified the 19 countries according to their job satisfaction and job stress and applied regression analysis to test whether new public management has impacts on either or both job satisfaction and job stress. According to this study, strong market driven…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Educational Environment, Educational Change, College Faculty
Leadership and Performance in Higher Education: A Comparative Analysis in Portugal and Spain
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Cerda Suarez, Luis Manuel; Hernandez, Wilmar – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2012
In the last decade, many changes have taken place in the field of university education. Professional practice demands that future graduates design and market products, preserve the interests of their clients, take responsibilities in public administration or participate in politics. Universities must educate professionals so that they become…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Styles
New Public Management in Educational Reform in Norway
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Solhaug, Trond – Policy Futures in Education, 2011
The article focuses on the similarities and differences in using new public management (NPM) administrative arrangements in educational policy as they have been presented in the educational reform process carried out this millennium by two governments in Norway: the Centre-Conservative government and the current Red-Green coalition government.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis