1/ Topic: Presentation of the experience of the Institute of Public Policy in using e-learning th teach public policy Discussion of deans/heads Issues for discussion: Experience with use of innovative delivery methods (distance learning, e-learning, branch capuses). Plans for their use? The biggest problems experienced so far related specifically to the needs of public administration/public policy education. Regulatory issues and quality assurance issues in use of these formy.
2/ Topic: Good Practices to Mainstream Diversity into PA Education
All schools and institutions of public administration in the various NISPAcee target regions work in multiethnic environments. In this panel in the Forum, rectors and deans of schools and institutions of public administration will share their strategies for addressing multiethnic environments, such as through adopting innovative teaching and training practices, curriculum design, and recruitment.
Multiethnic democracy requires multi-ethnic practice from the public service. Meeting this challenge begins with the work done by schools and institutes of Public Administration. Higher educational and training institutes should strive to recriut and train a diverse community of future public servants who will be ready to face issues related to the multiethnic communities and to find solutions that will promote democratic development of such communities, support their involvement in the decision-making process and their general, broader civic integration with the rest of the population.
The panel brings togather heads and faculty from schools and institutes of public administration who are experienced in dealing with multiethnic issues in the region to discuss strategies for their teaching/training programs, share with experiences, their observations on what works well in such programs and what needs to be avoided.
Ethnic, linguistic, religious, gender and other forms of diversity are central issues for public administration. This is certainly true for communities in which diversity appears in devise forms, such as in post-conflict contexts; it is also the case for any society in which principles of democracy and good governance are established as norms. However, in contemporary public administration education, public administrators are rarely sensitized to the relevance of diversity to their work, let alone how to address it comprehensively. Schools and institutes of public administration must play a lead role in this regard, incorporating diversity into their curriculum in a thematic or topical sense (how diversity is relevant to public service delivery, for example), and in their own policies (such as through application or recruitment strategies).
We' d like to discuss the topical issues in curriculum development: Incorporating Diversity in Public Administration Education from the experience of the recently conducted workshop, organised by the Curriculum Resource Center (Central European University), the Center for Policy Studies (Central European University), and the Managing Multiethnic Communities Program of the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (OSI) organised the workshop on in Budapest, Hyngary. We'd like to present an opportunity for the synthesis of views and experiences from a range of social, political, and economic contexts.
It will aim to address ways of integrating diversity into public administration education comprehensively. Discussions will consider diversity topically and as an issue that should be integrated into all aspects public administration education. What models of incorporating diversity into public administration education exist? How can curriculum be designed such that public administrators are sensitized to the need to address diversity in their work? How can public administration education itself be a model for incorporating diversity into all aspects of work?
The overall objective is to facilitate the exchange of views, experiences emerged in different social, political, and economic contexts as well as to draw lessons from existing good practices and strategies within NISPAcee.
The world's nearly 200 countries include some 5,000 ethnic groups. Nearly all of these countries have minority groups totaling at least ten percent of their total population. Such figures underscore that diversity management is a challenge not merely for a few 'multiethnic' states, but is more the rule than the exception. This is certainly true in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
The panel aims to provide a timely and innovative contribution to the public administration discourse by offering informed, in-depth analyses of how ethnic diversity has been recognized and how arguments for national cohesion and efficient public administration have been balanced in the process of on-going reforms of public administration in different contexts. Discussion of the dean/heads Issues for discussion: Experience with problems of diversity into PA education.Potential for cross-border co-operation and provision.
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