%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®Whatever you say, say nothing¡¯: Teaching public administration in Northern Ireland
%A Colin Knox
%J Teaching Public Administration
%@ 2047-8720
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0144739418812922
%X This article is a contribution to a special issue of Teaching Public Administration, which offers teachers with many years¡¯ experience the opportunity to reflect on changes over time. The context for this paper is teaching public administration in Northern Ireland, a region of the UK that has a sizeable public sector but a distinctive and unstable structure of governance. The paper begins by summarizing the pedagogic polemic in teaching public administration, how this played out in a devolved region of the UK that has witnessed political conflict, and the influence of this setting on the provision of higher education for public sector officials. It addresses how a regional university has sought to meet the seemingly parochial demands of its students with the wider demands for global outward-facing teaching and research
%K Northern Ireland
%K policy community
%K Master of Public Administration
%K pedagogic dilemma
%K curriculum design
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0144739418812922