Rafael Bauschke
ABSTRACT
As the New Public Governance (NPG) paradigm gains importance for public administrations, future civil servants will need the skills and the willingness to implement citizen participation. The paper answers the question as to whether participation can be taught by assessing the impact of a module on citizen participation in a communal setting. The aim of the module is to promote citizen participation among public administration students and to strengthen their skills on how to implement participation formats. We compared student groups based on survey data and evaluated the skills and willingness of citizen participation in time t0, before the course, and time t1, after course completion. The empirical results show that the module seems to “work” in the sense that we experience slight changes in the participants’ perceptions of citizen participation. All in all, the very small changes in perception suggest that the module should be redesigned and retested to accomplish its educational purpose.
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- Can participation be taught?
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