Cheryl King, Lisa Zanetti

Transformational Public Service (eBook, ePUB)

Portraits of Theory in Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Everyone who aspires to more effective public service should read this book. It provides a compelling antidote to the managerial focus of theory and practice in public administration. Written with the aim of inspiring and rekindling a mission for public service, Transformational Public Service weaves together theory and stories from actual practice to show that public service can (and does) advance the goals of democracy, inclusiveness, and social and economic justice. Eight practitioners from government and non-governmental organizations at all levels - from the street to the executive office - tell their personal stories of transformational public service. Theory, poetry, and popular culture references are woven around the stories. Both students and practitioners will discover new ways of thinking in this book that will enable them to transform their own administrative practices. As the authors note in their prologue: "e;As we listened to these stories, we heard people say that public service can be and is transformational (transforms institutions, practices, and people's lives and experiences) in ways that serve democracy, engagement, and social and economic justice. The public service they practice is collaborative, humanistic, emancipatory, inclusive, and diverse."e;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317453376
• Artikelnr.: 42041924

Autorenporträt

Cheryl Simrell King, Lisa A. Zanetti

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Citizenship and Governance
Chapter 1 Story: Transforming Citizenship, Greg Coleridge
Chapter 2 Comment: Citizenship and Governance in Twenty-first-Century America
Chapter 3 Story: Transforming Citizenship and Governance, Claire Mostel
Part II Theory and Practice
Chapter 4 Story: Theory-Informed Practice and Practice-Informed Theory, Evelyn Brom, Sheila Hargesheimer
Chapter 5 Comment: Theory and Practice
Chapter 6 Story: Critical Theory in Action, Gary De La Rosa
Part III Transforming Institutions
Chapter 7 Story: Transforming Bureaucracy, Douglas MacDonald
Chapter 8 Comment: Transforming Institutions
Chapter 9 Story: Transforming Institutions Insider/Outsider, Joseph Gray
Part IV Transforming People
Chapter 10 Comment: To Be of Use
Chapter 11 Story: Doing What It Takes to Be of Use, Randy Scott
Chapter 12 Comment: Making Meaning Doing Your Own Work
epi Epilogue: Transformational Public Service in the Public Interest