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This book has been selected for the 2024 NASPAA (Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration) Outstanding Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Book Award.
This edited book captures key trends that are driving changes in policy education and presents a repertoire of pedagogies to prepare educators and policy programme designers to teach for better impact in learning and policy practice. Supported with observations from selected Asian universities the chapters cover the experiences of authors in working with students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as professional programmes such as executive education, training, and capacity building for mid-career professionals and practitioners. Part I of this book presents ideas that are asserting the need for incorporation of new content as well as teaching practices for policy education. Part II covers selected cases of application of pedagogical approaches and strategies in Asian universities, tested at different education levels, modes of teaching, and disciplines.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Emerging innovations in policy pedagogies and practice in Asia.- THEME I: BEYOND BOUNDARIES.- Chapter 2: Role of trans-disciplinarity in public policy pedagogy- Experience from three contexts of public policy education.- Chapter 3: Teaching comparative public policy comparatively.- Chapter 4: Policy Learning through Fieldwork Engagement: A Geography classroom - fieldwork assessment on issues of water for policy understanding.- Chapter 5: Bridging a North-South epistemological divide in public policy research and education.- THEME II: DIGITALIZATION OF POLICY STUDIES.- Chapter 6: Teaching Digital Natives.- Chapter 7: How the Digital Age is Transforming Higher Education Public Policy.- Chapter 8: A Connected Government: The Use of Social Media and the Betterment of Public Service.- THEME III: NOVEL CAPACITIES FOR POLICY EDUCATION.- Chapter 9: Building Public Policy Capacity through Systems Thinking & System Dynamics Modeling Education in an Undergraduate Residential College Setting.- Chapter 10: Uses of serious games and simulations in education.- Chapter 11: Learning by 'Doing' and then Reflecting.- Chapter 12: Combining qualitative and quantitative data for policy research and practice: Evaluation, learning, and aid effectiveness of the Asian Development Bank.- Chapter 13: Looking Ahead: opportunities and challenges for policy education and practice in Asia.
About the author
Sreeja Nair is Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. With a specialization in environmental policy, she studies policy processes and tools of governments to address uncertainty in policymaking. Her research focuses on Asia and covers diverse environmental and socio-technical policy issues, including climate change, food security and more recently, digital transformation.
Navarun Varma is Lecturer (Resident Fellow) and Assistant Director of External Programmes at Residential College 4, National University of Singapore. He specializes in teaching and research on interdisciplinary topics related to disaster resilience and environmental governance.
