Teaching Resources

Teaching is an essential aspect of programs in public affairs and administration. Our students look to our faculties for substantive, enlivening courses. But effective pedagogy cannot be taken for granted. Although faculty members are both producers and consumers of pedagogical innovations, beyond the publication of textbooks those learning resources often enjoy only limited distribution. This compendium is an effort to bring together a broad array of teaching and learning resources in public affairs and administration.

Books
  • A Call to Serve: Quotes on Public Service – A pocket-sized book featuring quotes reflecting on the various facets of public service: public service motivation, compassion, purpose, ethics, citizenship and more. The purpose of this book is to emphasize the concepts of civic engagement and the common good, to foster an understanding of the spirit of service already evident among many citizens, and to suggest a broad array of pathways to public service. Print editions can be ordered from ASPA.
     
  • Public Management & Administration Illustrated (Volumes in a Multi-Lingual Collection of Diagrams) – Diagrams reproduced in these volumes communicate the main ideas in several fields of public administration. Diagrams are organized into six chapters: Systems and Environment of the Public Sector, Developing Human Resources, Adapting Technologies, Building Partnerships, Measuring for Performance, and Improving Public Performance. Visual support enables insightful ideas to leap over language barriers. These volumes of Public Management and Administration Illustrated are translated into several languages in order to make the ideas contained in these illustrations available to a large public. In order to facilitate translations, text has been kept to a minimum. The diagrams speak for themselves.
     
  • Teaching Resources Guide for Public Administration Fourth Edition (2017) Marc Holzer, Co-Editor
    Lois M. Warner, Co-Editor
    Dan Bee Lee, Associate Editor

    NASPAA’s Teaching Resources Guide for Public Affairs and Administration, Fourth Edition, developed by the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University-Newark, brings together a broad array of teaching and learning resources in public policy, public affairs and administration and makes each available via a web link. Over 2,000 resources and web links are provided in the areas of instructional resources, academic integrity, cases for the classroom, syllabi, textbooks and publishers, simulations, and teaching statistics/research methods.

    The fourth edition features:

    • New resources addressing current public policy and management issues, with links to information about textbooks, publishers, media, data analysis and display tools, instructional technology, curricula, journals, classroom management, as well as about modalities for identifying and tracking student-learning outcomes
    • A section with media resources that reflect the rapid development of technology and increase in multimedia instructional materials, relevant to the field of public affairs and administration
    • A listing of textbooks that are widely used in the field of public administration, presented by topic to help readers find relevant books more easily, with annotations that highlight what the editors believe to be some of the “best in class” resources

 

Websites
  • The Public Administration Gateway, is a comprehensive and accessible portal to the core resources in the field. These resources, many of which can be accessed at no charge, should enable public managers to deliver services to citizens as promised; students to find and build successful careers; and academics to utilize expanded sets of quantitative and qualitative data in their research. Coming Soon.
     
  • The Cases and Simulations Portal for Public and Nonprofit Sectors is a free, publicly accessible online database with thousands of cases and simulations and related multi-media and fictionalized cases that highlight the advances, innovations, challenges, and trends in the public and nonprofit sectors. This digitized network brings together a broad array of teaching and learning resources in public and nonprofit administration, and each is directly available in full-text format through the portal. Coming Soon.
     
  • The Public Performance Measurement and Reporting Network (PPMRN) is a web-based community that connects citizens, government officials, public and nonprofit managers, and academics who are dedicated to measuring, reporting, and improving public sector and nonprofit performance. Free membership provides access to a comprehensive database of resources including articles, reports, performance measures, books, manuals, websites, and training opportunities.
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