Format:
1 online resource (148 pages)
ISBN:
9780821384749
Content:
Little is known about how governments learn best or what exactly makes them change their behavior in a targeted way. Governments consist of thousands of state officials and numerous institutional units-the executive branch, parliaments, the judiciary, and the civil service-which function under unique political conditions and environments. Experience has shown that they learn differently than individuals and/or organizations do. Governmental learning is considered a complex and hard-to-conceptualize matter; it must address many cultural, political, religious, and social particularities; psychological barriers; and practical constraints that might hinder or even prevent learning at all. The Black Box of Governmental Learning introduces the Learning Spiral, a new concept for organizing effective learning events for governments. The Learning Spiral - a heuristic and multidisciplinary concept - rests on the assumption that knowledge in public governance is never final and needs to be updated continuously by all the actors involved. The didactic approach of the Learning Spiral is based on an analysis of past and current experiences of how governments learn, the particular knowledge they learn, and how knowledge gets created and transferred to the learners. It further takes into account particularities of different governmental models; contemporary theories of policy analysis, economics, history, pedagogy, and sociology; and individual, organizational, and governmental learning approaches. The Learning Spiral has been developed over the past decade through an ongoing dialectical process, where an original theory-based concept was applied in practice, reviewed, and subsequently reapplied in subsequent events. Therefore, it was repeated on an ongoing basis in numerous events held in developed and developing countries all over the world, with thousands of
Content:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- The Black Box of Governmental Learning Outline -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Why Learning in Governments? -- 1.2 A Concept to Organize Learning in Governments -- 1.3 Outline of the Book -- Part I Analytical and Theoretical Considerations -- 2 Analytical Concepts of Governmental Learning -- 2.1 Historical Analysis -- 2.1.1 Origins -- 2.1.2 Learning Approaches -- 2.2 Today's Practices -- 2.2.1 Learning Approaches Today -- 2.2.2 Practical Application -- 2.2.3 Types of Events -- 2.3 Particularities and Lessons -- 2.3.1 Particularities and Barriers -- 2.3.2 Lessons from Past and Current Practices -- 3 Theoretical Concepts of Governmental Learning -- 3.1 Democratic Government, Democratic Governance, and Governmental Learning -- 3.1.1 Concepts of Democratic Government and Democratic Governance -- 3.1.2 Policy Analysis and Governmental Learning -- 3.2 Knowledge in Democratic Governance -- 3.2.1 Concepts of Knowledge Creation -- 3.2.2 Knowledge Creation in Democratic Governance -- 3.3 Learning Theories -- 3.3.1 Individual Learning -- 3.3.2 Organizational Learning -- 4 A New Concept of Governmental Learning- The Learning Spiral -- 4.1 Learning System and Learning Process -- 4.1.1 Learning System -- 4.1.2 The Learning Process and Its Methodology -- 4.2 Stages of the Learning Spiral -- Stage 1: Conceptualization -- Stage 2: Triangulation -- Stage 3: Accommodation -- Stage 4: Internalization -- Stage 5: Externalization -- Stage 6: Reconceptualization -- Stage 7: Transformation -- Stage 8: Configuration -- 4.3 Practice of the Learning Spiral -- 4.3.1 themplathe and Organization -- 4.3.2 Evaluation and Results Framework -- Part II Practical Application -- 5 Inthernational Conference -- 5.1 Conference Reader-Conceptualization Stage.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821384534
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821384534
Language:
English
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